Wednesday, January 15.
Commander Carlos Eugenio Tomás Pinzón García, with
three of his men, took the frigate "Almirante" from
the port of Bluff (Bloofields) in the Mosquitia.

Tuesday, January 21.
The "Almirante" stops at the port of Chagres in
Panamá.  Com. Tomás spent the night on shore.

Wednesday, January 22.
The "Almirante" departs from Chagres to the Urabá gulf
and then to Cartagena.

Wednesday, January 29.
The "Almirante" passes near Turbo river in Uraba, Com.
Tomás and two of his men took a small boat and are
left in the mouth of the River.  The "Almirante"
continues to Cartagena.

Com. Tomás and his men walk upriver to an advance
camp, where they spend that night.

Thursday, January 30.
Com. Tomás take a boot upriver with three fresh men.
They arrive to the Paramillo base camp in the evening.
 At the arrival a courier is sent to Lower Atrato and
a second one to Upper San Juan.

Saturday, February 1.
Com. Tomás departs from Paramillo with 60 men in close
formation.  They head to Lower Atrato.

Monday, February 3.
The 60 men arrive to the Lower Atrato base camp.  A
force of 150 men with fully armed is mounted on ships
to go upriver, lead by Com. Tomás.  A similar force
should have been gathered in Upper San Juan.

Tuesday, February 4.
The fleet is seen by Spanish authorities, shoots are
exchanged but no one gets hurt.

Thursday, February 6.
The ships arrive 3 miles from Quibdó.  A camp is
mounted.

Saturday, February 8.
120 men advance towards Quibdó.  A similar force from
Upper San Juan should be marching towards Novita.
Com. Tomás stays at the camp.

(OOC: the 120 men are not the only people fighting for
me in Quibdó, there are suposed to be people already
there that would give us support.)

At 12:30 a courier arrives at the camp.  Complete
control of the town, five men wounded, and none is
death in the attack.  Com. Tomás and the other men
march to the town.

At 15:00 Com. Tomás enters to the mayor's office and
proclaims Quibdó as a free city.

At 19:30 a courier arrives from Novita.  The city is
secure with no serious casualties.

Sunday. February 9.
An open meeting is convoked in Quibdó, presided by
Com. Tomás.  People expose their fears and
expectations on the new situation.  In the late
afternoon, the deposed mayor of Quibdó is released on
the promise of not supporting any side.  Case by case
some Spanish soldiers are similarly released, unarmed,
during the evening.

Monday, February 10.
Reports arrive to Quibdo that most towns in Chocó and
Urabá with any sort of Spanish authority have been
secured by the Free Darien Army.  30 men had died.

Tuesday, February 11.
Com. Tomás heads to Nóvita.

12:30  Com. Tomás arrives to Nóvita.

13:00  Com. Tomás enters to the Governor House, and
have lunch with Com. Prudencio, who had led the
assault on Nóvita.  They spend the whole afternoon
putting ideas together.

In the evening a courier arrives from Portobelo.  The
town was taken the 9th, 12 men died.

Wednesday, February 12.
10:00  From the Governor House in Nóvita and in front
of the people, Com. Tomás proclaims:

``For all the people of the lands of Chocó, Urabá and
Darién, one of the richest lands of the New Kingdom of
Granada and the whole Spanish Empire, but also one of
the most marginal and impoverished lands of the
Empire.  Considering the political situation that
streaks Spain with two kings that had brought their
war into the Americas and the several uprisings of
Creoles that are fighting their kings, not for the
sake of us but for the sake of themselves as Spanish
colored by the land that do not want to be Spanish any
longer.  We, your brothers and neighbors, are
proclaiming here and now the Free State of Darien.''

``This is a new nation for people like us, for people
like you.  People that have been told all our lives
that we are less than the Spanish, less than the
whites.  Well, the God they told us has created all
men, all women and men, equal.  We are not less than
any Spanish, we are not superior either.  We are just
people who are claiming their right to improve our
lives and to have an equal opportunity as any other
men in the world.  We are beginning this dream by
building a nation that might protect us from the
despotism and the indifference of a king or a
dictator.''

``This Free State of Darien will be the building block
of a new nation, where the peoples of the Americas,
either those who lived here originally, those who
descend from the conquerors and those who were brought
here as slaves, are not less than any other man on the
World.  We are not less to the eyes of God, we have
the right of being not less to the eyes of our fellow
men.''

Com. Tomás was not surprised by the general cold way
people took the message, but the declaration had to be
done and was done.

14:00
The new congress of Darien begin to session with
representatives from the main cities, towns and indian
communities in Chocó.

Com. Tomás and Prudencio are given the official rank
of Generals.  Gen. Prudencio was provisionally elected
as President of the Free State of Darien, to be
ratified when the whole congress would session in
three months. Gen. Tomás Pinzón is provisionally
elected as commander of the Army of Darien, and is
given permission to seek support for the viability of
the State of Darien if there is a retake attempt from
the Spanish or an invasion from a rebel Creole army.

Saturday, February 15.
Gen. Tomás Pinzón departs to Cartagena, to meet with
the leaders of the Cartagena revolution and the Darien soldiers there.