History for ready reference, Volume 1, A-Elba

volume 1, chapters 6-8.

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_H. Brownell, North and South America Illustrated, pages 316-334._

_C. Cushing, Simon Bolivar (N. Am. Review, January, 1829, and January, 1830)._

_H. L. V. D. Holstein, Memoirs of Bolivar, chapter 3-20._

_Major Flintner, History of the Revolution of Caraccas._

COLOMBIAN STATES: A. D. 1819-1830. The glory and the fall of Bolivar. Dissolution of the Colombian Federation. Tyranny under the Liberator, and monarchical schemes.

Three days after the battle of Boyaca, Bolivar entered Bogota in triumph. "A congress met in December and decided that Venezuela and Nueva Granada should form one republic, to be called Colombia. Morillo departed for Europe in 1820, and the victory gained by Bolivar at Carabobo on June 24, 1821, decided the fate of Colombia. In the following January General Bolivar assembled an army at Popayan to drive the Spaniards out of the province of Quito. His second in command, General Sucre, led an advanced guard, which was reinforced by a contingent of volunteers from Peru, under Santa Cruz. The Spanish General Ramirez was entirely defeated in the battle of Pichincha, and Quito was incorporated with the new republic of Colombia."

_C. R. Markham, Colonial History of South America (Narrative and Critical History of America,