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Battle of Boyacá
Colombia, then known as New Granada, acquired its definitive independence from Spain at the Battle of Boyacá. Brigadier Generals Francisco de Paula Santander and JosĂ© Antonio Anzoátegui led a combined republican army of Colombians and Venezuelans, complemented by a small British Legion made up of mostly Irish volunteers (including some veterans from the Napoleonic Wars), to victory over a Spanish Royalist force led by Colonels JosĂ© MarĂa Barreiro and Francisco JimĂ©nez.
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