Manifiesto
Subtitle: El caracter y la constitucion fisica de los hombres influyen por lo regular directamente en las grandes pasiones y en las grandes virtudes: ..
Publisher: Imprenta de la Ciudad
Published: 1822
Place of publication: Guayaquil
Language: spa
Subjects: Revolutionaries; Broadsides; History; Politics and government
Other titles: Caracter y la constitucion fisica de los hombres influyen por lo regular directamente en las grandes pasiones y en las grandes virtudes.
Notes: Title from caption and first part of text.

Imprint from foot of p. [2]

Signed on p. [2]: Francisco de Ugarte.

The Republic of Gran Colombia lasted from 1819-1831 and encompassed the present day countries of Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela, and parts of northern Peru, western Guyana, and northwest Brazil. Simón Bolívar served as its first president from 1819-1830 from the capital in Bogotá. It dissolved in November of 1831 due to the political differences and tensions among the peoples of the different present day countries, which made up the republic.

Francisco de Ugarte was formerly a colonial Spanish official who had fought for South American independence since 1809. In this self-defence of his conduct, he states that he made a map of the port of Guayaquil and one of the copies of this map, in documents held by the royalist troops, found its way into the hands of the revolutionary troops after the victory over the Spanish at the battle of Yagauchi in 1821. After the discovery of that map, some people declared Ugarte to be a traitor. Here he responds to his accusers and declares his dedication to the revolutionary cause.

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