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The National Army of Colombia ((スペイン語:Ejército Nacional de Colombia)) is the land military force of Colombia and the largest branch of the Colombian Armed Forces. It is responsible for carrying out land-based military operations along with the Colombian Naval Infantry (''Infanteria de Marina'') and for protecting the Colombian state against domestic or foreign threats. The modern Colombian Army has its roots in the Army of the Commoners (''Ejército de los Comuneros''), which was formed on the 7th of August of 1819, before the establishment of the present day Colombia to meet the demands of the Revolutionary War against the Spanish Empire. After their triumph against the Spanish, the Congress of Angostura created the Greater Colombian Army, to replace the disbanded Commoners Army. ==History== The Colombian Army traces its history back to the 1770s and 1780s, when the ''Comuneros'' (Commoners) – mostly descendants of Spanish and Amerindians – decided to separate from the Spanish Empire to create their own country and initiated a revolutionary war. By 1810, as the nation declared independence, a Volunteer National Guard was raised composed of infantry and cavalry units. Nationwide civil war prevented a full establishment of a regular army, and it would take 9 years before a truly national army would be formed. The Greater Colombian Army was consolidated on August 7, 1819, following the defeat of the Spaniards at the Battle of Boyacá under the command of Simon Bolivar. Since then the Colombian Army has been the biggest organization in Colombia. The military reform carried out by General Rafael Reyes Prieto in the year 1907, right in the aftermath of the Thousand Days War, marked the professionalization of the Colombian Armed Forces, resulting in the opening of the Colombian Military Academy. The Army was then dramatically changed by modernization efforts, which included among them the consultation of two military missions in the 1920s by the Chilean and Swiss armies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Army of Colombia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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