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zuela, and joined to the remainder of the 

 expedition some of the royalist troops in 

 Caraccas, Morillo quitted Puerto Cabello, 

 in the month of July 1815, for the purpose 

 of besieging Carthagena. 



Bolivar, who, as has already been stated, 

 embarked for Carthagena after the battle of 

 Araguita, proceeded from thence to Tunja, 

 where the Congress of New Grenada was 

 sitting; from which body he received di- 

 rections to compel the city of Bogota, by 

 force, to acknowledge its authority. Having 

 succeeded in this object, he was sent with 

 three thousand men upon a similar mis- 

 sion to the province of Santa Martha, and 

 for the purposes of which Carthagena was 

 to contribute troops and musquets. Bolivar 

 having reached the town of Monpox, on 

 the river Magdalena, sent to inform the go- 

 vernment of Carthagena of the demands of 

 the Congress Through the influence, how- 



