Contribución de la Campaña Libertadora de Guayana a la consolidación de la guerra e instauración de la República, Venezuela, 1817-1824.

Abstract

This article analyzes the military campaign that, in 1817 ensured the possession and incorporation of the Venezuelan south to the process of independence. The different stages in which this complex military day was completed are described chronologically; and the strategic, logistical and geopolitical transcendence advantages of the patriotic occupation of this province are discussed, as a fundamental factor to explain and understand the drastic change of course that the revolution of independence acquired in Venezuela and other South American territories, between 1817 and 1824