page_title: Military history of Ecuador
section_title: Civil war
hierarchical_section_title: Military history of Ecuador / Civil war
caption_attribution_description: English: Vie Illustrée de Garcia Moreno by Charles D`Hallencourtm, France 1887 Español: Vie Illustrée de Garcia Moreno por Charles D`Hallencourtm, Francia 1887
context_page_description: The military history of Ecuador spans hundreds of years.
context_section_description: By 1859 the nation was on the brink of anarchy and was marked by the Ecuadorian–Peruvian territorial dispute of 1857–1860
  Guayaquil's Guillermo Franco, had declared several regions autonomous and signed the Treaty of Mapasingue, ceding the southern provinces of Ecuador to an occupying. The Peruvian army led by General Ramón Castilla arrived in Guayaquil and forced Ecuador to sign the Mapsingue Treaty that declares the allocation of Peruvian lands null and obliges the suspension of the Ecuadorian-English business. This action was scandalous enough to join previously disparate elements. Gabriel García Moreno, leaving aside his differences with General Juan José Flores, met with the former dictator to quell the various local rebellions. The ultimate goal of this effort was the defeat of Franco's forces in the Battle of Guayaquil, which led to the revocation of the Mapasingue Treaty. This opened the last chapter of Flores's long career and marked the entry into power of Gabriel García Moreno.
caption: Depiction of the Battle of Guayaquil, the final battle of the Ecuadorian Civil War.
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