His carriage routes, commercial networks, and extensive kinship relationships allowed him to associate with landless farmers living in the jungle, villagers, and locals in Huanta.
[9] However, in the face of the insurrection that soon broke out in Cuzco, Huachaca and his people decided to support the king's representatives, indicating that the disrespect for ordinances was more a reaction against a concrete abuse than a movement inspired by some ideology.
[11] The main action in which the Iquichans participated at that time was the successful defense of Huanta, on October 1, 1814, when a column of 5000 Morochucos (only 300 of them armed with rifles) with four cannons and cavalry tried to take the city.
[14] Among the commanders, patriot Cayetano Quirós, leader of a guerrilla of 200 Morochucos in Ica, stands out; He also managed to act in Cangallo, Jauja and Huancayo in aid of the dispersed forces of the Liberating Expedition.
The first phase of the rebellion occurred between March and December 1825 when the indigenous people of Iquicha mobilized, but were quickly contained by the patriot army that was in Huanta.
The small republican garrison fled and when the Iquichanos arrived, they simply entered the town and set fire to the barracks, the municipality and other buildings.
[19] In July 1826, the general and president of the Governing Council, Andrés de Santa Cruz, personally traveled to Ayacucho to fight the rebels.
[36] The third phase of the rebellion began on November 12, 1827, when the rebels from Iquicha retake Huanta, after a weak resistance from the Pichincha battalion under the command of the elusive Sergeant Major Narciso Tudela.
[7] On the heights of Iquicha the monarchical banner had once again risen, and his plans were very ambitious: to take Huanta, liberate Huamanga and Huancavelica and, finally, the "Restoration of the Kingdom",[39] extirpating the republicans, proclaiming a counterrevolutionary and illiberal ideology, supported by clergymen.
[28][40] Keeping the city under his control for two weeks, Huachaca is appointed by locals as "Great Chief of the Restorative Division of the Law", a troop of around 3000 community members.
", The Iquichans again attacked Ayacucho in numbers from 1500 to 4000, but they are defeated a second time by the skilful defense of the prefect Domingo Tristán y Moscoso in the battles of Mollepata hill and Honda ravine (November 29 and 30, respectively).
[46] The most notable event of this stage was the Battle of Uchuraccay of August 25, 1828, where Commander Gabriel Quintanilla—commanding the well-armed civilian men—faced the courageous Iquichans equipped only with lances and slings for a period of two hours.
[49] It should be mentioned that during the decades following Bolivian independence, maritime trade flourished and Cuzco was displaced by Arequipa as the economic center of southern Peru.
After several successes at the head of their montoneras, the Orbegosista generals sought to ally themselves with the inhabitants of Huanta, treating them with deference despite the disdain that the majority felt for the local peasants.
[53] In alliance with Orbegoso, the Huanta notables armed 4,000 Indians under the command of the landowner and captain of the local civic militias Juan José Urbina, who had contributed $519 of the $3,262 it cost to mobilize an army larger than that of the monarchical rebellion.
[53] He cleverly managed to unify under his command, and through two "acts", the "montoneros de las punas" and the notables of the region, making them forget their ideological, social or ethnic differences for a time.
[53] During the civil war, General Domingo Tristán, the new prefect of Ayacucho, who a few years ago had violently repressed the Iquichanos in that rebellion—in fact, he despised them[58]—now wrote proclamations to encourage them to fight on his behalf.
[h] Guerrilla operations began immediately against the pro-Gamarra garrisons that occupied Huamanga and Huanta in the middle of the month, taking advantage of the absence of the prefect, General José María Frías y Lastra, the Tiger of Piura, to evict them.
The president regretted it and affirmed that he promised to educate one of the caudillo's children[61] (on the other hand, in 1831, when Gamarra visited the city, the municipal authorities refused to receive him and they were considered acts of "civil disobedience").
Finally, he promised to educate one of his children to gain his loyalty, since he could not offer a semi-illiterate and Quechua-speaking muleteer a high position in the public administration or the army.
[63] The truth is that the majority of the Hispano-American intelligentsia (except for the Cuzco one) kept the hope of being able to symbolically whiten the lower strata of the population of their countries through education, the press and civilizing literature.
[50] As for Urbina, a notable and wealthy neighbor, in October he was appointed attorney-in-fact for the province, in charge of determining provincial taxes, all on the recommendation of Prefect Domingo Tristán.
Faced with this serious situation, the prefect of Ayacucho, Colonel Lopera, sent reinforcements to the Chilean “Valdivia” battalion, which ended the siege and began an expedition in the highlands against the “indiada”.
[66] In this context, on November 15, 1839, the general commander of the Peruvian government Manuel Lopera led an agreement with the Iquicha forces to find a negotiated solution to the conflict, for which the Treaty of Yanallay was signed, in the Yanallay plateau of Huanta; between Lopera and the Iquichan commander Tadeo Choqe, representing the great caudillo General José Antonio Navala Huachaca, who after 18 years of having proclaimed the Independence of Peru, formally committed to lay down their arms forever against the Peruvian government and to respect the laws of the nation.
The Iquichan resistance was ending, which was supported by his leader, who left the following consigned in the document: "Rather, you are the usurpers of Religion, Crown and Homeland [...] What has been obtained from you during your rule?