Free and Independent State of Cundinamarca

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Establishment

• April 1811: Under the guidance of Jorge Tadeo Lozano, the province of Santafé transformed itself into a state called the Free and Independent State of Cundinamarca.
• July 1811: The viceregal capital, Santa Fe de Bogotá, established its own junta.
• December 1811: On November 26, 1812, Nariño left with his army to conquer Tunja. On December 2, 1812, his army faced a federalist army commanded by Antonio Ricaurte and Atanasio Girardot in the Battle of Ventaquemada, and was soundly defeated.

Chronology

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1. Spanish American wars of independence

Were a series of independence wars by the Spanish colonies in America that started after the French occupation of mainland Spain during the Napoleonic Wars.

1.1. Colombian War of Independence

A series of related conflicts that resulted in the independence of the Spanish colonial Viceroyalty of New Granada.

1.1.1. Secession of New Grenada

Was the secession of the Viceroyalty of New Granada from Spain.

1.1.1.1. Colombian Secessionist States

Was the creation of several revolutionary polities that wanted to be independent from Spain in the Viceroyalty of New Granada.

• April 1811: Under the guidance of Jorge Tadeo Lozano, the province of Santafé transformed itself into a state called the Free and Independent State of Cundinamarca.
• February 1814: Nariño assembled his 'Army of the South,' numbering 1500 to 2000 men, and managed to capture Popayán in January 1814.
• January 1815: Nariño assembled his 'Army of the South,' numbering 1500 to 2000 men, and managed to capture Popayán in January 1814, but was then defeated by the Royalist forces in Pasto, after which he was arrested in May 1814, and then sent to the Royal prison at Cádiz. The failure of the campaign and the capture of Nariño left an enfeebled Cundinamarca, so the United Provinces took the opportunity to send an army against it, headed by Simón Bolívar, who had fled Venezuela for the second time after the fall of the Second Republic of Venezuela. Bolívar and his army forced the submission of Cundinamarca to the United Provinces by December 1814.

1.1.1.1.1. First Colombian civil war

Was a civil war between federalists and centralists in the Viceroyalty of New Granada that had declared independence from Spain.

• December 1811: On November 26, 1812, Nariño left with his army to conquer Tunja. On December 2, 1812, his army faced a federalist army commanded by Antonio Ricaurte and Atanasio Girardot in the Battle of Ventaquemada, and was soundly defeated.
• December 1811: On November 26, 1812, Nariño left with his army to conquer Tunja. On December 2, 1812, his army faced a federalist army commanded by Antonio Ricaurte and Atanasio Girardot in the Battle of Ventaquemada, and was soundly defeated.

1.1.1.2. Colombian Juntas

Was the creation of several revolutionary juntas that wanted to be independent from Spain in the Viceroyalty of New Granada.

• July 1811: The viceregal capital, Santa Fe de Bogotá, established its own junta.

Disestablishment

• January 1815: Nariño assembled his 'Army of the South,' numbering 1500 to 2000 men, and managed to capture Popayán in January 1814, but was then defeated by the Royalist forces in Pasto, after which he was arrested in May 1814, and then sent to the Royal prison at Cádiz. The failure of the campaign and the capture of Nariño left an enfeebled Cundinamarca, so the United Provinces took the opportunity to send an army against it, headed by Simón Bolívar, who had fled Venezuela for the second time after the fall of the Second Republic of Venezuela. Bolívar and his army forced the submission of Cundinamarca to the United Provinces by December 1814.