cartagena's

Updated: June 30, 2025

Before leaving for the campaign of the South, the Libertador Presidente received the good news of Cartagena's fall into the hands of Montilla after fourteen months of siege, and of the insurrection of Panama, which became independent and formed the eighth department of Colombia. The importance of the independence of Panama cannot be exaggerated.

Guillermo A. Sherwell - Simon Bolivar, the Liberator