BOLIVAR, SIMON. Letter signed ("Bolivar") to General Mariano Montilla, Soledad, 5 November 1830. Two pages, 4to, integral address leaf with postmark and seal, browned , in Spanish. "IN WAR NOTHING SHOULD SURPRISE ONE" In the fall of 1830 Colombia was in a state of chaos verging on civil war. Bolivar, sick with tuberculosis, sends his confidential analysis of the situation to one of his generals, who had commanded the Rio Hacha - Santa Marta expedition in 1820: "The vexations that you are suffering have prevented me from receiving a letter from you, for which I am sorry as it is a proof of your difficulties; which, although they are valid, that is, although you are correct to be troubled, in war nothing should surprise one. I will tell you frankly that as soon as I heard that Valdés [the Spanish General Jeronimo Valdes, a Loyalist] was coming, I knew what was going to happen, since he was doing nothing but repeating what he had done in Peru. A man who comes to face his enemy, as he did, will do anything: now he is offering you relief after such a glorious campaign. I greatly fear that [Colonel José Felix?] Blanco's column will be defeated, because I have always feared it, and now more than ever; but if by chance he manages to reunite with Valdés, I would give him the command which would please Valdés, and would do him no other favors in the district. I would a thousand times have preferred Carmona or any other brave captain to him... "Frankly, as soon as I heard of the Rio Hacha insurrection I was seized by the most unfounded but the most funereal premonitions. May God prevent them from coming true...I have always distrusted operations undertaken in enemy territory, and I feared for this one from the start. Be careful with the commander of the 'Apure' and his little batallion. He would have arrived at Rio Hacha by the river more quickly, and wouldn't have suffered what Blanco did. "I am telling you all this because I want you to know all that I am thinking, even if it is only to unburden my heart..." Published in Bolivar, Obras completas (Havana, 1947), II, 2301.
BOLIVAR, SIMON. Letter signed ("Bolivar") to General Mariano Montilla, Soledad, 5 November 1830. Two pages, 4to, integral address leaf with postmark and seal, browned , in Spanish. "IN WAR NOTHING SHOULD SURPRISE ONE" In the fall of 1830 Colombia was in a state of chaos verging on civil war. Bolivar, sick with tuberculosis, sends his confidential analysis of the situation to one of his generals, who had commanded the Rio Hacha - Santa Marta expedition in 1820: "The vexations that you are suffering have prevented me from receiving a letter from you, for which I am sorry as it is a proof of your difficulties; which, although they are valid, that is, although you are correct to be troubled, in war nothing should surprise one. I will tell you frankly that as soon as I heard that Valdés [the Spanish General Jeronimo Valdes, a Loyalist] was coming, I knew what was going to happen, since he was doing nothing but repeating what he had done in Peru. A man who comes to face his enemy, as he did, will do anything: now he is offering you relief after such a glorious campaign. I greatly fear that [Colonel José Felix?] Blanco's column will be defeated, because I have always feared it, and now more than ever; but if by chance he manages to reunite with Valdés, I would give him the command which would please Valdés, and would do him no other favors in the district. I would a thousand times have preferred Carmona or any other brave captain to him... "Frankly, as soon as I heard of the Rio Hacha insurrection I was seized by the most unfounded but the most funereal premonitions. May God prevent them from coming true...I have always distrusted operations undertaken in enemy territory, and I feared for this one from the start. Be careful with the commander of the 'Apure' and his little batallion. He would have arrived at Rio Hacha by the river more quickly, and wouldn't have suffered what Blanco did. "I am telling you all this because I want you to know all that I am thinking, even if it is only to unburden my heart..." Published in Bolivar, Obras completas (Havana, 1947), II, 2301.
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