Abstract

DOTOR ROBAYO, María Victoria. Indian Soldiers: the "Share of Blood"of the Estado Soberano de Boyacá in the Formation Process of the Federal Army and the Army of the Colombian Union. Historelo.rev.hist.reg.local [online]. 2012, vol.4, n.8, pp.73-107. ISSN 2145-132X.

This article aims to make a social analysis on the formation of the Army in the Sovereign State of Boyacá. On the basis of a political interpretation of the radical liberalism, the limits of this proposal for marking criterion anti-military civil were questioned, but the exercise of force to defend its project was devoted, and therefore had to create troops, battalions, armies to go to war. Practices in which the limits of radical liberalism became evident to use forms of recruitment contrary to its civilizing discourse of citizenship training. It makes visible the figure of the "boyacense" soldier as main component of National Guard troops, which was recruited in exercise of the ethnic, regional and social discrimination, an essential figure in the understanding of the definition partisan wars and building of the Colombian national state.

Keywords : radical liberalism; army recruitment; peasant soldier; conscription.

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