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After the failure of the Center Campaign a change in strategy was needed, thus the possibility of launching a military campaign to liberate New Granada was not a far-fetched idea. [3] On August 15, 1818, in a proclamation Bolivar announced to the peoples of New Granada his intention to launch a military campaign in their country.
The Viceroyalty of the New Kingdom of Granada (Spanish: Virreinato del Nuevo Reino de Granada [birejˈnato ðe ˈnweβa ɣɾaˈnaða]), also called Viceroyalty of New Granada or Viceroyalty of Santa Fe, was the name given on 27 May 1717 [6] to the jurisdiction of the Spanish Empire in northern South America, corresponding to modern Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela.
Venezuela, New Granada, Ecuador, and Panama were merged into the Republic of Colombia (Gran Colombia), with Bolívar as president there and in Peru and Bolivia. In his final years, Bolívar became increasingly disillusioned with the South American republics, and distanced from them because of his centralist ideology.
The objective of this convention was to agree on a constitution for the central departments of the late Gran Colombia and elect the magistrates who should govern it. At the convention held on 20 October 1831, the State of New Granada was created, which with the Constitution of 1832 was officially called the Republic of New Granada.
It met from February 15, 1819, established the new independent-from-Spain nation on December 17, was interrupted by further independentist activity, and reconvened on July 31, 1821, when the Congress of Cúcuta began its sessions. The Angostura assembly consisted of twenty-six delegates representing Venezuela and New Granada (today Colombia).
On 30 May 1813, Francisco Montalvo y Ambulodi, newly appointed Captain General of the New Kingdom of Granada, arrived at Santa Marta (the Cortes of Cádiz had suppressed the title of Viceroy). The port became the de facto Royalist capital of New Granada, until Pablo Morillo arrived in April 1815 with his huge army to retake the whole of New ...
The New Kingdom of Granada (Spanish: Nuevo Reino de Granada), or Kingdom of the New Granada, was the name given to a group of 16th-century Spanish ultramarine provinces in northern South America governed by the president of the Royal Audience of Santafé, an area corresponding mainly to modern-day Colombia.
The Republic of New Granada was a centralist unitary republic consisting primarily of present-day Colombia and Panama with smaller portions of today's Costa Rica, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru and Brazil that existed from 1831 to 1858.