Bolívar's march over the flooded llanos
1819 · Event
In the rainy season — when no army moves — Bolívar leads 2,500 men through the drowned plains of the Orinoco and then over the freezing páramo of the Andes, losing a third of them, to appear behind the Spanish army in New Granada. Boyacá follows within a month; the gamble founds a republic.
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