Bolívar's campaign to liberate New Granada
Bolívar's campaign to liberate New Granada also known as the Liberation Campaign of 1819 was part of the Colombian and Venezuelan wars of independence and was one of the many military campaigns fought by Simón Bolívar. In 1819 Bolívar led a combined New Granadan and Venezuelan Army in a campaign to liberate New Granada which had been under Spanish control since 1816.
The Battle of Boyacá by Ricardo Acevedo Bernal, 1920
Francisco de Paula Santander would be the architect for not only building this new army in Casanare but also training and supplying it. Watercolor by Santiago Martinez Delgado.
Bolívar and Santander traversing the flooded Llanos by Jesús María Zamora.
Bolivar crossing the Paramo de Pisba by Francisco Antonio Cano
Venezuelan War of Independence
The Venezuelan War of Independence was one of the Spanish American wars of independence of the early nineteenth century, when independence movements in South America fought a civil war for secession and against unity of the Spanish Empire, emboldened by Spain's troubles in the Napoleonic Wars.
La Batalla de Carabobo, Martín Tovar y Tovar
Detail of The Battle of Carabobo (1887) by Martín Tovar y Tovar. Federal Capitol of Venezuela.
