BBC World Histories - 08.2019 - 09.2019

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Boyacá Bridge, 70 miles

north-east of Bogotá, site

of the pivotal battle between

Bolívar’s patriots and

Spanish royalist troops

on 7 August 1819

Caiman bask on the shore of

a pool in the llanos (plains) of

Colombia. These reptiles were

far from the only hazards

facing Bolívar’s expedition,

which also encountered leeches,

sucking mud and piranhas

The Liberator’s army

crosses the bleak Pisba

páramo in early July 1819,

depicted a century later

by Colombian painter

Francisco Antonio Cano

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