The National Register.
London, England, 1819-11-29 00:00:00

GLORIOUS SUCCESS

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SOUTH AMERICAN PATRIOTS.

ODPICTAL ACCOUNT OF THE RATTLE or lIOPACA, TNT. DE. 1
STRUCTION OP THE ROYAL ARMY, AND TUE oArztatE
OP THE CAPITAL. SANTA rr.
BATTLE OF BOJACA.
Y‘sterday, at day-light, our advanced corps giving
notice thst the enemy. was in march by the road of Si.nwa, the army was put under arms; and as soon as it
was ascertained that •he intended passing the bridge of
liojaea, in order to opeu direct communication,. and be
in contact with the capital, we marched by the high road
So prevent him, or fierce him to give battle.
At two its the afternoon, the enemy's first division
reached the bridge, where he saw only our advance of
rivalry. Not then able to ascertain our force, and be-
lieving those opixssed to him were nothing mote than a
reconnoitring par v, he attaaed ellen% with his Casadores
to cleat the way while the main. body followed op. Our
divisions gAicketted their march, and to the great sur.
prise of the enemy, the whole of our. infantry showed
themselves in a column on a height commanding his
position. The enemy's van had ascended part of the
road, Ibilowilig uur advance, and the remainder of his
army was below, about a quarter of a league from the
bridge, and showed .a force of 3000 Men.
Our battalion of Cazadorcs of the van sent out a com-
pany of skirmishers, and with the remainder in colomn
a:tacked the enemy's C3r illores, and drove them bark
precipitately to a wall, from whence they were also dis-
lodged: they then passed the bridge, and took up a
hosition on the other side, and in the meat' while our
infantry came down, and the cavalry marched along the
road.

The enemy made a movement by his right, which
was opposed by the. rifles, and the British company.
The battalions, first of Barcelona and Paezi's Bravos,
with the squadron of the cavalry of the upper plain,
marched by the centre. Tile battalion of the line ol
New Granada, and the Guides of the rear, joined the
battalion of Citadoresatuf formed the left. The ctilunms
Tunja and Tocorro remained in reserve.
The action began at the sone instant all along the
tae, General Anzoatectui directed the operations of the
centre and right; he ordered a battalion to Le attacked
which the enemy had sent out as skirmishers in a glen,
end forced it to retire on the main body, which formed
i 1 column•nn a height, with three pieces of artillery in
Cie centre, and two corps of cavalry in. the flanks,waiting

site attack.
Our troops of the centre, disregarding the fire of some
coria of die enemy posted on their left flank, attacked
the main body. The enemy gave a dreadful fire, but our
troops, with the most daring moveinerus,,executed with
the strictest discipline, surr 1111 l the enemy's corps
T:ie squadron or cavalry of the Udper-plain charged
with its wonted valour, and from that moment all the
efforts of the Sdanish G-eneral were fruitless , he lost his
position. The company of ho:se grenadiers tall Spa-
niards) was the first that cuwar,:;,, left the field of battle.
To:a infantry endeavoured to re-form on another height,
and was instantly destroyed. A corps of cavalry in
reserve waited ours molt tile lances in rest, and ryas
perced thronglyand-thruagh by our bocci, ; the whole
Spanish army in complete, mut, anti closed in on all
sides after suffering dreadful carnage; threw down their
arias and surrendered.
With an almost simultaneous movement, General
Santander, who directed the operations of the left, and
who had met with au insturts:derable resisiauce from the
enemy's van, and to which he had only opposed his Ca-
&adores, charged with souse companies of the battalion
of the hoe, and the Guides of the, rear passed the bridge
and eomple,ed the victory.
All the enemy's army remained in our Itaixls, General
Rarreyro, Commander•in-Chief of the army of New
;rams/is, is a prisoner, and was taken iu the field. of
by a soldier of the First Rifles, Pedro Martinez :
toe second he coininautl, Colonel Xi's-ivies, is also a
prisoner ; almost all the Commandants and Majors of
corps, a multitude of inferior officers, and more than
Ifwa men are likewise taken, and moreover all their
arms, am utuuitin,a,artillery, horses, &c. Hardly
!u) men escaped, and amongst Mein some chiefs and
officers of cavalry, who lied before the action was de-
cided.

The adraniages are incalculable which will ensue to
site republa.: fr.iiii the glorious victoly of yesterday.
Our troops never triumphed allure decidedly, arid
'arum have euga4ed troops so well disciplined, and w•
well commanded.
Nothing can be compared to the intrepidity with
which General Atizoategiii at the head of two batialbm,,
Ind • arrtadion of cava!ry, attacked and overthrew the

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enemy's main body, and to him the • victory is iu grrat
inea•tire dint.

General headquarters, in Vt•nta Quesnada, the Bth
of A upuit. C. SOLI BLETIE, l Ilia of the Stair.
Thu Vieerny Sultana has fled in the directitnt ut
Honda, and Cala:tiro follows hint ot, the southern side.
All the cavalry and the corps of the rear-4tiard. pursue
I on all sides, and there is reason to hope that none
will escape.