La Vela de Coro is the port of Coro, Venezuela. Coro and its port form a conurbation, although Coro is in the municipality of Miranda and La Vela is in a separate municipality, Colina. The twin settle
Statue of Francisco de Miranda
Antigua Aduana (painted blue) and the Plaza La Antillana
Sebastián Francisco de Miranda y Rodríguez de Espinoza, commonly known as Francisco de Miranda, was a Hispanic military leader and revolutionary who fought in the American Revolutionary War, the Frenc
Portrait by Martín Tovar y Tovar, 1874
Miranda's house in London, where he lived between 1802 and 1810, until he traveled to Venezuela to join the independence movement.
The Battle of Valmy by Horace Vernet
French commander Charles François Dumouriez, who used the town of Tienen as a base during the March 1793 Battle of Neerwinden