Belivar's Story of the War of Independence

Bolivar was ordered to go link up with a small force manning the borderlands between new granada and venezuela. The enthusiasm of the men who had fought their way up the magdalena river was now spent. So belivar went back to mompak, where he was now a famous hero, and raised 400 new men. Then he turned around and marched those guys up into the mountainous borderlands betweennew granada and zuela. And the change in torrain during the wars of spanish american independence is pretty remarkable. It's cold and dry and wind swept and mostly devoid of inhabit as.