Battle delivered the April 25th 1811, during the war of independence of Uruguay.

The tradition makes go up the Eastern beginning of the will of independence of the Banda (Uruguay of today) with the February 28th 1811, day of the Grito de Asencio . According to the example of Argentinian of Buenos Aires, and initially, in complete agreement with the independence junta which dominated this city and under her direction, the Uruguyans, whom one called the Orientaux , take the weapons against the Spanish colonial government, represented in Montevideo by the viceroy Francisco Javier de Elo.

The patriots seize several cities and the first confrontations between the freedom fighters and the royalists were not to delay. The April 21st 1811, a skirmish opposes the revolutionary columns ordered by Venancio Benavidez to the troops loyal supporters in Paso LED rey on the territory of San Jose. Hustled, the Spaniards fold up themselves on this city, continued by their adversaries. The April 25th, Benavidez attacks there and a severe defeat inflicts to them, thus gaining the first notable combat of the conflict.

At the time of this battle, the Manual captain Antonio Artigas, older brother of the héro of the independence of Uruguay, Jose Gervasio Artigas, accepted wounds of which he succumbed shortly after. The May 18th 1811, the Uruguyans again beat the Spaniards with the Bataille of Mow Piedras; this new success opens the road of Montevideo to them, in which the viceroy cuts off himself with his fleet and his last troops.