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Abstract

The following research explores military worries on independentist sectors during the Independence War in New Granada. The multiple contingencies that appeared in this conflict conditioned the emergency of critics on the actions that senior military commands had implemented, and it also allowed that new proposals were created in debate scenarios. The press was the prime place for discuss different propositions and approaches. The newspaper Argos de la Nueva Granada was one of the debate platforms in which this issue was specially developed and summarized. The soldier and the citizen were the most important elements mentioned in these speeches and articles, where they acquired different senses and they became index and factor of the context in which they were enunciated. These words also show how experiences and expectations on subjects that intervened in military issues changed depending on the different situations that happened through the years of the war (1811-1816).