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How Did an Army of Llaneros and Mercenaries Liberate Northern South America? - The Short-Lived Republic of Gran Colombia | Sleepy Facts About History
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In 1819, an army of llanero horsemen, British mercenaries, and Andean recruits crossed flooded plains and frozen mountain passes to secure independence from Spain. The republic they created, Gran Colombia, was meant to unite northern South America under a single central government. Yet it dissolved a mere eleven years later, not because it was conquered by an outside force, but because the diverse coalition that forged it had never agreed on what the new nation was for.
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