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set off in order to join the division of Paez. 

 Nothing, however, of any importance oc- 

 curred during two or three months, except 

 that Cedeno dislodged the royalists from 

 Torralva. 



Bolivar, on the 15th of February 1819, 

 presided at the opening of the Congress of 

 Venezuela at Angostura, where he urged 

 the union of New Grenada and Venezuela 

 under one constitution and government, 

 (which has since taken place,) and resigned 

 his supreme authority, but retained the com- 

 mand of the army, which had concentrated 

 itself on the banks of the Apurd Morillo, 

 having formed a junction between his own 

 forces and those of La Torre, Morales, and 

 Calzada, crossed the Apur^. Bolivar, in 

 order to draw the enemy into the interior, 

 retired behind the Arauco. Morillo, unable 

 to obtain subsistence for his troops, and 

 losing six hundred men, whom he sent out 

 to procure provisions, and several other de- 



