Santiago Mariño
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Santiago Mariño Carige Fitzgerald was a nineteenth-century Venezuelan revolutionary leader and hero in the Venezuelan War of Independence. He became an important leader of eastern Venezuela and for a
Portrait of Santiago Mariño by painter Martín Tovar y Tovar, oil on canvas, 1874
Manuel Piar
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Manuel Carlos María Francisco Piar Gómez was General-in-Chief of the army fighting Spain during the Venezuelan War of Independence.
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…small island of Chacachacare off the coast of Trinidad. Among this small group were the future Generals José Francisco Bermúdez, Francisco Azcue and Manuel Piar. With that handful of revolutionaries with a few muskets, they crossed the Gulf of Paria in canoes, and landed on the coast of Venezuela on 11 January…
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