Abstract

PRADO VALENCIA, DAVID FERNANDO  and  VALENCIA COLINA, CHRISTIAN CAMILO. A burden for the inhabitants and a challenge for the authorities: armies' supplying in New Granada southwestern during the wars of 1808-1824. Hist. Caribe [online]. 2020, vol.15, n.36, pp.51-72.  Epub June 28, 2021. ISSN 0122-8803.  https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.36.2020.4.

The purpose of this article is to analyze the military supply during war conflicts caused by the change of regime from monarchical to republican in the province of Popayán. First of all, it is presented the type of products required by the troops and the strategies the authorities employed to obtain them from population of all social classes. In the second part we describe the institutional organization chart of the supply and its operation, pointing out the particularities and tensions generated in every instance the goods sent to the troops went through. The third and last part analyzes the changes that the supply generated in the experience of several officials and neighbors, who were involved in the tasks of supplying the troops for whom the revolution and the war marked new and unexpected contours to their life cycles.

Keywords : Revolution; Military supply; Armies; Logistics; Experience; Province of Popayán.

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