, were captured, and a very small portion of the
army escaped. Some of these fled before the battle was decided, but many
of them were taken by the peasantry of the surrounding country and brought
in as prisoners. The loss of the patriots was incredibly small,--only
thirteen killed and fifty-three wounded.
Boyaca--after Maypo, by which Chili gained its freedom--was the great battle
of South America. It gave the patriots supremacy in the north, as Maypo
had done in the south. New Granada was freed from the Spaniards, and on
August 9, two days after the battle, the viceroy, Samana, hastily
evacuated Bogota, fleeing in such precipitate haste that in thirty hours
he reached Honda, usually a journey of three days. On the 12th Bolivar
triumphantly marched into the capital, and found in its coffers silver
coin to the value of half a million dollars, which the viceroy had left
behind in his haste.
It must be said further that the English auxiliaries aided greatly in the
results of these battles, their conduct giving Bolivar such gratification
that he made them all members of the Order of the Liberator.
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