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true that, subsequently, Bolivar quitted the 

 province of Carthagena, leaving the remain- 

 der of his troops to join in the defence of 

 the city against the Spaniards: but it can- 

 not be denied, that whilst this ill-timed hos- 

 tility was proceeding between two parties 

 of the patriots, immense advantages were 

 obtained by the royalists. Wnich of the 

 parties was right, or in what respect, is 

 now of little importance ; but, undoubtedly, 

 they were both wrong, in allowing their 

 dissentions to proceed to such a fatal ex- 

 tremity. Bolivar, however, made ample 

 amends for the error by his conduct and 

 exertions at a later period. 



Morillo, for a time, carried every thing 

 before him : the patriots, after they had lost 

 Carthagena, were defeated in the battle of 

 Cachiri, and afterwards at Remedies, and 

 Morillo entered Bogota in June 1816. His 

 victories, however, from the losses he sus- 



