500 SPANISH AMERICA. 



Morillo having recovered from the effects 

 of his wound, and collected together his 

 troops, gave battle to Paez in the plains of 

 Cojedos : both parties claimed the victory, 

 and both were nearly equally disabled. 

 Previously to this battle. Bolivar was on the 

 17th of April surprised at San Jose by one 

 of his own officers, a Colonel Lopez, and 

 narrowly escaped being delivered up to the 

 Spaniards : — Lopez, with twelve men, made 

 his way to where the General was reposing ; 

 and Bolivar had but just time to get away, 

 nearly naked. 



Calabozo was not long in the possession 

 of the royalists : a detachment sent out from 

 thence having been defeated, with the loss 

 of three hundred men killed or taken, Mo- 

 rales, who commanded there, was obliged to 

 evacuate the place. 



In the mean time the patriot General Na- 

 rino had taken Cariaco ; and Admiral Brion, 

 after having dispersed the Spanish flotilla. 



