WK.14a The Return

Spain refused to lose any American colonies, so, after Colombia`s independence the crown wanted to rule over Colombia again, which meant, conquer it one more time. But in the time that took the Spanish army to get to America the Colombian armies had gotten stronger, in part because more people had “joined the cause”.

Before the independence Spain had the support of some governors that forced the people to be in favor of the crown, but when they got back they saw that that support was no longer in their favor, so they started torturing and humiliating the men women and children to “earn” their support.

Despite this, the crown`s armies got very strategic: Instead of fighting the Colombian army they cut the sources that supplied the army “se organizo una intendencia que fiscalizaba y centralizaba la producción de alimentos, el reclutamiento de soldados y artesanos, el abasto de cueros y ganados como de todo aquello que fuera esencial para sus ejércitos en campaña”(Colombia: imágenes de su diversidad pg. 131). With this strategy, the Spanish army recovered the south of Colombia between 1815 and 1816.