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e. The Thousand Days' War (Spanish: Guerra de los Mil Días) was a civil war fought in Colombia from 17 October 1899 to 21 November 1902, at first between the Liberal Party and the government led by the National Party, and later – after the Conservative Party had ousted the National Party – between the liberals and the conservative government.
List of wars involving Colombia. This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Colombia and its predecessor states from Pre-Hispanic times to the present day. The Muisca people of Bacatá defeat the army from the Muisca people of Hunza. The rulers of both sides die in the battle. North Korean invasion of South Korea repelled.
1,500 dead. 2,800 wounded and missing. 4,000 dead wounded and missing. The Battle of Palonegro was a battle in the Santander Department of Colombia, than lasted from May 11—26, 1900, in the early days of the Thousand Days War. The commanding general of the Liberal armies, Gabriel Vargas Santos, ordered his troops to retire to Palonegro, near ...
2,000 deserted [6] 750 killed and wounded [6] The Battle of Peralonso ( Spanish: Batalla de Peralonso ), also known as the Battle of La Amarilla or the Battle of La Laja, was a major battle in the Santander Campaign of the Thousand Days' War in Colombia. It was fought between the Conservative government and the Liberal rebels between 15 and 16 ...
200+ killed [1] Statue of General Diego de Castro in Barranquilla. The Battle of the Magdalena River (Spanish: Batalla del río Magdalena ), also known as the Battle of Los Obispos or the Battle of Gamarra, was the first major battle of the Thousand Days' War. It took place on the Magdalena River on 24 October 1899, [2] near the town of Gamarra ...
The politics of clientelism in Colombia: Democracy and the state (Routledge, 2017). Murillo, Mario A., and Jesus Rey Avirama. Colombia and the United States: war, unrest, and destabilization (Seven Stories Press, 2004). Phelan, John Leddy. The People and the King: The Comunero Revolt in Colombia, 1781. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 1978.
1591 — Thomas Cavendish, a British corsair, occupied Santos. 1821 — 1825 Brazilian War of Independence. 1835 — Malê Revolt. 1835 — 1845 Republican revolt against the Empire of Brazil is put down in the Ragamuffin War. 1896 — 1897 War of Canudos. 1912 — 1916 Contestado War, a rebellion in Brazil, fails.
The South American country deepened its military ties with Israel in the late 1980s by purchasing Kfir fighter jets that were used by Colombia’s air force in numerous attacks on remote guerrilla ...