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battle of tunja
Tunja was captured on august 5th
tunja is a city on the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes, in the region known as the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, -
mopping up
Mopping-up operations were completed in 1823, while Bolívar led his forces on to Peru. …surprise, and in the crucial Battle of Boyacá on August 7, 1819, the bulk of the royalist army surrendered to Bolívar. -
three days later
Three days later he entered Bogotá. That action was the turning point in the history of northern South America. -
rebel army
A rebel army of about 3,000 men under generals and first surprised and defeated the Spaniards in preliminary engagements at Gámeza (July 12). -
cut off
Santander cut off the Spanish advance force near a bridge over the Boyacá River, while Bolívar’s troops attacked the main force a half mile away, capturing about 1,800 prisoners and the Spanish commander. -
boliveir
Bolívar then captured Bogotá on August 10 and was hailed as the liberator of New Granada. And he set up a provisional government. -
venzelza
He went to venezuela were he announced his scheme to establish the republic of gran colombia. -
independence
the battle of boyaca was for independence for Latin america -
the end
After three centuries of colonial rule, independence came rather suddenly to most of Spanish and Portuguese America. Between 1808 and 1826 all of Latin America except the Spanish colonies of Cuba and Puerto Rico slipped out of the hands of the Iberian powers who had ruled the region since the conquest.
