Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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es to the west, and to reachit a dense tropical virgin wilderness mustbe traversed, only six to seven degreesabove the equator, when torrential inun-dations converted the land into seas ofpestilential swamps. Poisonous reptileshung from the trees and devouring alli-gators infested the watery. The artillerysank deep in the quagmires. Hundredsof miles of these regions having at lastbeen traversed, there began the ascentof the forbidding Andes, their snowypeaks thousands of feet above the clouds.The transit over these mountain chains,among the loftiest in the world, wasfrightful beyond description, an appal-ling mortality prevailing, the British andforeign volunteers especially perishingby the hundreds. Finally, at the end ofseventy-five days, and having covered atotal distance of one thousand miles,Bolivars diminished and wasted armydescended the Andes into Colombia, en-countered the royalists at the bridge ofBoyoca, August 7, 1819, and won a splen-did victory, all the Spanish surviving
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GENERAL SUCRE, Bolivar8 seoond in command, who won the victory of Ayacucho, the final battle of the Latin-American Revolution, December 9,1824. Taken from an oil-painting from life by the Lady Sucre,Marchioness of So land a. troops being made prisoners, togetherwith their commanding general. Bogotaarid all New Grenada became, as a conse-quence, free from the yoke of Spain. Bolivar, almost immediately after thiswonderful victory, returned to Angostura,where he prevailed upon the Congress ofVenezuela to unite herself to New Gren-ada and form the confederated Republicof Colombia, December 17, 1819. Sub-sequently, the southern territory of Quito,or Ecuador, was added, the ColombianUnion thus extending from the Isthmusof Panama on the north to the regionsof the equator on the south, bordering onPeru. Bolivar received the title of Lib-erator of Colombia, and it was decidedthat a general constituent Congress shouldassemble at Rosario de Cucuta, in Janu-ary, 1821, to frame a constitution for

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