. History of the Panama canal; its construction and builders . rgas Besgara were respectively pro-claimed governor and vice-governor ofTierra Firme. Arrangements were thenmade for a march to Chagres and Panama,but the discipline of the newcomers wasvery lax, there were no funds to pay thetroops, and sickness and death decimatedtheir ranks. Hore, who was of a dis-tinctly aggressive type, did not wait forthe enemy to come to him, but carried thefight to them, and marching across theisthmus with about 500 men reachedPorto Bello on April 29. Early the follow-ing morning an attack was made and Port

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. History of the Panama canal; its construction and builders . rgas Besgara were respectively pro-claimed governor and vice-governor ofTierra Firme. Arrangements were thenmade for a march to Chagres and Panama,but the discipline of the newcomers wasvery lax, there were no funds to pay thetroops, and sickness and death decimatedtheir ranks. Hore, who was of a dis-tinctly aggressive type, did not wait forthe enemy to come to him, but carried thefight to them, and marching across theisthmus with about 500 men reachedPorto Bello on April 29. Early the follow-ing morning an attack was made and PortoBello was retaken, among those slain inthe brief battle being the ill-starred newlyappointed Governor Lopez. MacGregorescaped by rushing to the beach and swim-ming to one of his ships. After negotia-tion, the forts surrendered, and that wasthe end of MacGregors raid. The congress held in December, 1819, atAngostura, in Spanish Guiana, and pre-sided over by Simon Bolivar, constitutedNew Granada, consisting of the modernColombia, Venezuela, and Quito or Ecua-.

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