Venezuelan War of Independence
The Venezuelan War of Independence was one of the Spanish American wars of independence of the early nineteenth century, when independence movements in South America fought a civil war for secession and against unity of the Spanish Empire, emboldened by Spain's troubles in the Napoleonic Wars.
La Batalla de Carabobo, Martín Tovar y Tovar
Detail of The Battle of Carabobo (1887) by Martín Tovar y Tovar. Federal Capitol of Venezuela.
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco was a Venezuelan military and political leader who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire. He is known colloquially as El Libertador, or the Liberator of America.
Miniature portrait of Bolívar in 1800
Wedding of Bolívar and del Toro as painted by Tito Salas, 1921
Portrait of Francisco de Miranda by Martín Tovar y Tovar
Portrait of Santiago Mariño by Martín Tovar y Tovar