BBC World Histories - 08.2019 - 09.2019

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ILLUSTRATION BY THERESA GRIEBEN

26 May 1819

Bolívar’s army sets off west

from Mantecal, Venezuela,

towards the border with New

Granada (now Colombia)

3 June 1819

Having marched through the

waterlogged Venezuelan

plains to reach Guasdualito,

Bolívar discloses his true

intention: to cross the Andes

4 June 1819

The army crosses the Arauca

river, entering the province

of Casanare in New Granada;

they rest for four days at

General Santander’s station

in Tame from 11 June

22 June 1819

After nearly a month in the

plains, Bolívar’s troops

reach the foothills of the

Andes at Pore before

beginning the arduous ascent

into the high mountains

3-6 July 1819

The exhausted troops

cross the freezing

Pisba plateau, where

perhaps 50 British

legionaries die of

exposure and

exhaustion

25 July 1819

Having descended the western

side of the cordillera, Bolívar

wins the first pitched battle of the

campaign for New Granada at

Vargas swamp

7 August 1819

The patriots defeat royalist

forces at the Boyacá

Bridge, leaving open the

road to Bogotá

10 August 1819

Bolívar enters Bogotá,

capital of New

Granada, winning the

epithet ‘El Libertador’

• a pivotal moment in
  the independence of
  South America from
  Spanish rule

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