APPENDIX. 

 No. I. 



BULLETIN 

 OF THE ARMY BESIEGING PUERTO CxWELLO. 



Francisco Rodriguez de Toro, general of division of the 

 armies of the republic, intendant of the department of 

 Venezuela, &c. 



FELLOW CIIIZENS, 



I have received through the channel of the director-gene- 

 ral of the war, the details of the late glorious operations 

 against Puerto Cavello, and the treaty of capitulation of the 

 citadel of San Felipe. Peruse them, and do justice to the 

 valour and energy of his Excellency the general in chief of 

 the department, Jose Antonio Paez, and of the troops under 

 liis command, as well as to the generosity of his Excellency 

 in granting them. 



BULLETIN. 



Having constructed a rocket battery, one of its guns 

 cleared the " Mangle" of the enemy's launches, which had 

 until then flanked our line, whilst the other bombarded the 

 Merlon of tfie enemy's battery, called " La Princesa," occa- 

 sioning therein a breach which almost left its cannon expo- 

 sed. The new position of the mortar and howitzer upon 

 our right attracted the observation of the enemy to that 

 quarter, and his Excellencyj the general-in-chief, with a view 

 to distract their attention, gave directions for cutting oflf the 

 water in the narrowest part of the river, which was com- 



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