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Excerpt from Recollections of a Service of Three Years During the War-of-Extermination in the Republics of Venezuela and Colombia, Vol. 1 of 2 IN presuming to offer the following volumes to the notice of the public, it is simply ia tended to convey a proper idea of a conflict which, in all the combined contingencies and horrors of intestine commotion, has seldom been equalled, and never exceeded. The struggle is now over; and it is gratifying to know, that although it has been attended with terrible severity, and its object pur chased dearly, it has been crowned, so far as regards independence of Spain, with the most complete success. The torrents of pa triotic blood which have stained the soil of Colombia have not been shed in vain; Li berty has reared its standard triumphantly and lastingly on the shores of Southern America; and there is now little doubt, if the affairs of the various Republics be conducted with. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.