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more intolerable oppression, and a still 

 greater barbarity, when the chance of war 

 again placed the power in their hands, had 

 produced the effect which might have been 

 anticipated. The people of Venezuela, what- 

 ever might have been their differences of 

 opinion, became united in support of the 

 cause of independence. The native troops, 

 also, who had enlisted under the banners of 

 the Spaniards, found themselves treated by 

 the latter with so much hauteur and con- 

 tempt, that many of them seceded ; and 

 joining others, who had been dispersed or 

 disbanded after the battle of Urica, they 



- formed Guerilla corps, under the command 

 of Monagas, Piar, Roxas, Saraza, Llanos, 

 and others; which, occupying the inland 



, parts of the provinces of Angostura, Cu- 

 mana, Barcelona, Caraccas, and Barinas, 

 continually harassed the Spanish troops, 

 and often defeated the detachments which 

 were sent against them. 



