 Battle of Palonegro

The Battle of Palonegro started on May 11 and ended on May 26, 1900, in the early days of the Thousand Days War, the commanding general of the Liberal armies, Gabriel Vargas Santos, ordered his troops to retire to Palonegro, near the city of Bucaramanga in the Santander Department of Colombia.Few could have imagined the effect it would have on Colombian history.