Although the revolutionaries surrendered, Orbegoso was overthrown the next year by his subordinate Felipe Santiago Salaverry, sparking the Salaverry-Santa Cruz War.
The Peruvian Civil War of 1834, also known as the Bermúdez Revolution, was a conflict that began in Peru after the election of General Luis José de Orbegoso as the country’s provisional president.
Because a successor had not been chosen due to failed elections months before, the National Convention (a congress of constituents) agreed to choose a provisional president.
However, the supporters of Gamarra, who continued to control key positions of power, harassed the new administration with the intention of demolishing it and placing Bermúdez as the new president.
However, his army began suffering desertions, even more so when news arrived from Arequipa - the most important city in Peru after Lima - that they were in favor of Orbegoso.
Many daily activities were suspended as a result of it, public shows stopped working and numerous shops closed their doors.
Lima, fearing that Bermudists passing through the capital would indulge in looting, rose up to fight, arming themselves with stones and a few guns.
There, sobbing, according to an eyewitness, he made the people known of the Bermúdez coup and announced his desire to defend the constitutional order till the end.
In Puno, General Miguel de San Román, prefect of the department, declared himself in favour of Bermúdez and began marching towards Arequipa.
On April 5, Nieto attacked San Román in Cangallo, and while it seemed he was winning the fight, a counterattack from the Bermudistas changed the situation.
She recounted the atmosphere that was lived in the city and how high society suddenly changed loyalty according to where victory seemed to be going in her book, Pilgrimages of an Outcast.
He emphasized the ridiculousness of the situation, according to his European perspective, the confrontation between tiny armies poorly armed and dressed, under the command of uneducated officers, who were constantly changing sides.
On his side, Bermúdez, also with a small army but with disciplined veterans, undertook the withdrawal from the Jauja Valley in Ayacucho's direction to join with General Frías, prefect of the department.
One of his main officers, General José Rufino Echenique, discloses in his memoirs that he agreed with Frías to depose Bermúdez once they were finished with Orbegoso.
Contemplating the disaster, Salaverry advanced to the left with the Zepita battalion and managed to stop the Bermudists, facilitating the withdrawal of their own and thus saving them from complete destruction.
Although there were tactical movements, cavalry charges and a few shots, this wasn't a battle in the full sense of the word, but Peruvian history traditionally has called it so.
A final meeting was expected, but it was then when Echenique convinced the rest of the Bermudist officers to reach a peaceful agreement with Orbegoso, regardless of Bermúdez's opinion.
With the constitutional order restored, the country abided by the legitimate authority of Orbegoso, who then returned to Lima for the second time triumphantly (May 3, 1834).