Battle of India Muerta

Date19 November 1816

Location

Arroyo India Muerta (near present-day Velázquez, Rocha, Uruguay)

34°5′38″S 54°17′42″W / 34.09389°S 54.29500°W / -34.09389; -54.29500

Result Luso-Brazilian victory

Battle of India Muerta
Part of the Portuguese conquest of the Banda Oriental
Date 19 November 1816 Location Arroyo India Muerta (near present-day Velázquez, Rocha, Uruguay) 34°5′38″S 54°17′42″W / 34.09389°S 54.29500°W / -34.09389; -54.29500 Result Luso-Brazilian victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves	Federal League
Commanders and leaders
Sebastião Pinto de Araújo Correia	Fructuoso Rivera
Strength
Total: 957[1] 722 infantry and artillery 235 cavalry 1 cannon	1,700 cavalry and infantry[2]
Casualties and losses
95:[2] 29 killed 66 wounded	~600:[3] ~200 killed 350–400 wounded 30 captured

The Battle of India Muerta took place between the Luso-Brazilian forces under the command of Sebastião Pinto de Araújo Correia against the artiguists led by Fructuoso Rivera in Rocha, present-day Uruguay. The battle lasted for four and a half hours and ended in a Luso-Brazilian victory.^[4]