Puente De Barbula

Battle of Bárbula

The battle of Bárbula was an armed confrontation which took as protagonists, on the one hand, to the Venezuelan troops and the auxiliary forces Grenadines commanded by Rafael Urdaneta and Atanasio Girardot and on the other side to the royalist army, captained by Domingo Monteverde, reinforced by components of the Regiment of Granada, who arrived from Spain to the command of Colonel Miguel Solomon. Took place on September 30 of 1813 on the left side of the Cerro de la hacienda Bárbula, on the outskirts of Naguanagua, in the current state of Carabobo (Venezuela). The resulting victory for the allied army colombian-venezuelan decisively influenced, paving the way for the establishment of the Second Republic of Venezuela. Simón Bolívar had laid siege to Puerto Cabello, straining the garrison realistic there outstanding. The situation changed favorably to the besieged when reinforcements arrived commanded by Colonel Miguel Solomon, by which Bolivar ordered the withdrawal of the patriot army toward the people of Naguanagua. Seeing that the rebel troops fled, Monteverde mobilized its forces to find itself at the site of the trenches and sent a vanguard to take possession of the hacienda "Bárbula". Bolivar then decides to send to the shock troops of Atanasio Girardot, Rafael Urdaneta and colonel Jose Luciano D'Elhuyar and Batista, who finally managed to dislodge the advanced realistic.

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