STORMING OF BOGOTA'. 393 



var at La Puerta, was ordered to Tunja ; 

 and, having been there reinforced, it march- 

 ed, in December 1814, under the orders of 

 Bolivar, against Bogota. The city was 

 stormed, and the principal suburbs were 

 already in the possession of Bolivar, when 

 he offered terms of capitulation, which Al- 

 varez accepted ; and according to which, 

 Cundinamarca was to join the confederation, 

 enjoying the same rights and privileges that 

 were then possessed by the confederate pro- 

 vinces. The Congress, soon afterwards, re- 

 moved its sittings to Bogota, which had 

 always been the capital of New Grenada, 

 though it was also the provincial capital of 

 Cundinamarca. 



Reinforcements were sent to the army at 

 Popayan, which, still under the orders of 

 Cabal, was checking, in that quarter, the 

 progress of the royalists : a body of troops, 

 under the command of Urdineta, was like- 



