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Abdón Calderón

Tulcán, Ecuador

Abdón Calderón

Abdón Calderón Garaycoa (31 July 1804, Cuenca - 7 June 1822, Quito) was a participant in Ecuador's war of independence. He died at age 17 from wounds sustained at the Battle of Pichincha. Such was his heroism that Simón Bolívar not only promoted him post-mortem but also decreed that in the future th

e first company of the Yaguachi battalion be reviewed as if he were alive, an honor rarely seen in military history.

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