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The Battle of Boyacá (1819), also known as the Battle of Boyacá Bridge was a decisive victory by a combined army of Venezuelan and New Granadan troops...

Boyacá (Spanish pronunciation: [boʝaˈka]) is one of the thirty-two departments of Colombia, and the remnant of Boyacá State, one of the original nine...

The Order of Boyacá (Spanish: Orden de Boyacá) is the highest peacetime decoration of Colombia. The order is awarded for exceptional service to distinguished...

Boyacá is the name of a region in Colombia. It may refer to other connections to Colombia: Battle of Boyacá Boyacá Department (Gran Colombia) Boyacá Department...

in the surroundings to commemorate the historic battle of August 7, 1819, known as the Battle of Boyacá, which granted independence to New Granada. The...

city of Barranquilla has 2 extra holidays, celebrating Monday and Tuesday of Carnival. The following are considered holidays only in the city of Barranquilla:...

María Barreiro Manjón, with the campaign culminating at the decisive Battle of Boyacá, where Bolivar's forces routed and dismantled the Royalist Army entering...

role at the Battle of Boyacá. On August 7 his rearguard came down the Camino Real in direction of Santa Fe in order to reach the Boyacá bridge, they...

Army at the Battle of Vargas Swamp, where he would be defeated, and at the Battle of Boyacá, where he would be captured along with remnants of the III Division...

elderly peasant woman from Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Boyacá Department, shortly before the Battle of Boyacá in 1819. According to local lore Bolívar visited...

following the defeat of the royalist army under command of Barreiro at the Battle of Boyacá against the Patriot army under the command of Simón Bolívar. With...

capital of the Viceroyalty of New Granada. After the Battle of Boyacá on 7 August 1819, Bogotá became the capital of the independent nation of Gran Colombia...

homeland, he took part in all the battles of the campaign. With the defeat of the Spanish army at the Battle of Boyacá most of central New Granada was liberated...

celebrate the triumph of the patriots in the Battle of Boyacá. After the independence of Colombia in 1810 and the dissolution of Gran Colombia in 1831...

ended at the Battle of Boyacá on August 7, 1819. (For more information. see Military career of Simón Bolívar.) That year, the Congress of Angostura established...

after Simón Bolívar defeated the bulk of the royalist army in the Battle of Boyacá, there were new uprisings in the Valle del Cauca and the Criollos took...

Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania. 1819 – Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá. 1858 – The...

– Wars of the Roses Battle of Boulou – 1794 – French Revolutionary Wars Battle of Bouvines – 1214 – Anglo-French War (1202–14) Battle of Boyacá – 1819...

decisive victory at the Battle of Boyacá, where the bulk of the Royalist army surrendered to Bolívar. On receiving the news of the defeat, viceroy Juan...

municipality in the Central Boyacá Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Ventaquemada is located at a distance of 98 kilometres (61 mi) from...