| Conflict: | Capitulation of Gualcince |
| Partof: | the Mexican annexation of El Salvador and Filísola's campaign in El Salvador |
| Date: | 21 February 1823 |
| Place: | Gualcince, Honduras |
| Result: | Mexican victory |
| Combatant1: |  Mexican Empire |
| Combatant2: |  El Salvador |
| Commander1: | Vicente Filísola |
| Commander2: | Manuel Arce Mariano Prado Rafael Castillo Feliciano Viviani |
| Strength1: | 200 |
| Strength2: | 800 |
| Casualties1: | None |
| Casualties2: | None |
The Capitulation of Gualcince occurred during the Mexican annexation of El Salvador, on February 21, 1823, when Vicente Filísola after occupying San Salvador continued with a division and forced him to surrender his weapons and surrender.
Before the fall of San Salvador, the army evacuated the city, under the command of Colonel Antonio José Cañas; General Manuel José Arce was carried in a bunk, due to his serious illness. In the city of Olocuilta, the Salvadoran Army organizes and forms a War Junta, which decided to go to the city of Granada to help the anti-imperialists, gave command of the troop Colonel Antonio José Cañas, appointing Colonel Feliciano Viviani as Second Chief; they evacuated the city and went to Honduras through Zacatecoluca.[3]
After Vicente Filísola captured San Salvador he continued with a division after the Salvadoran force under the command of Antonio José Cañas, Rafael Castillo and Mariano Prado after a short combat the Salvadorans were forced to surrender and capitulate to the Mexicans in the Town of Gualcince.[4] [5] There Filísola not only issued and officers who wanted to leave the province in this way ended the war with El Salvador.[6]
Arce went to the United States of the North, and from the British establishment of Belize he wrote to Filisola thanking him for his human and generous behavior; but without denying by his expressions the firmness and dignity of his character Delgado remained in a hacienda.
On March 6 the Brigadier Vicente Filísola appoints Colonel Felipe Codallos, Mayor and Governor of the province of El Salvador, and leaves for Guatemala.