The Spanish reconquest of New Granada in 1815–1816 was part of the Spanish American wars of independence in South America and Colombian War of Independence. Shortly after the Napoleonic Wars ended, Fe
Pablo Morillo, Commander-in-chief of the combined Spanish-Venezuelan expeditionary force.
Lieutenant-General Pablo Morillo y Morillo, Count of Cartagena and Marquess of La Puerta, known as El Pacificador, was a Spanish military officer and colonial administrator who served in the French Re