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attacking the Spanish lines, concluded, at 

 Cticuta, an armistice for a month with La 

 Torre, who proposed it on the part of Mo- 

 riilo, with the view of preparing for a last- 

 ing accommodation ; — but it was distinctly 

 stated by Bolivar, that no terms could be 

 listened to, unless the republic of Colombia 

 were acknowledged as a free, sovereign, and 

 independent state. 



This armistice however expired ; and the 

 expedition to Santa Martha having sailed. 

 Fort Cienega, on the Magdalena, was taken 

 by storm on the 11th of October; six hun- 

 dred and ninety of the royalists being 

 killed ; and the next day Santa Martha 

 surrendered to Admiral Brion. The patriots 

 now received accessions from every quarter; 

 the battalion of La Reina passed over to 

 them on the banks of the Tuy ; Na\^rro, 

 the commandant of the militia in the ad- 

 jacent towns, joined them with the greatest 

 part of his force ; the canton of Guaca, and 



