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with all the officers of the government, and 

 Bolivar, on the 10th of August, triumphantly 

 entered Bogota. 



In the mean time Paez, who was left in 

 Venezuela, defeated a body of royalists, on 

 the 20th of July, at La Cruz. 



General Auzuategui pursued the royalists 

 who had escaped from the field of Boyaca, 

 and who had fled from Bogota, as far as 

 Nare, on the banks of the river of the same 

 name ; and Colonel Plaza was despatched in 

 pursuit of Calzada, who had retreated to- 

 wards Popayan. The provinces of Neyva 

 and Maraquita again declared for the pa- 

 triots, as did also Antioquia and Popayan. 



Nearly the whole of New Grenada was 

 now in the power of the patriots ; and on 

 the 17th of December 1819, Bolivar having 

 returned, amidst the joyous acclamations 

 of his fellow-countrymen, to Venezuela, the 

 dearest wish of his heart was gratified, by 

 its being decreed that New Grenada and 



