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Your valor has earned yesterday a name for your corps, and through the midst of the fighting, when I saw you succeed, I named you the
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Venezuelan Patriots. The Royalists had a total of 3,500 to 5,000 (depending upon the source) soldiers, while the patriots had some 3,000 men. Despite the superiority of the Royalists, the Patriots would go on to win the battle.
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