José Dolores Estrada Vado
José Dolores Estrada Vado (born March 16, 1792 in Nandaime , † August 12, 1869 in Managua ) was a soldier in Nicaragua , who in 1856 beat the filibusters at the San Jacinto hacienda .
Life
José Dolores Estrada Vado, the son of Timoteo Estrada and Gertrudis Vado Lugo, was a professional soldier.
In 1824 he supported Juan Argüello del Castillo y Guzmán. In these fights he became a sergeant at the age of 35 .
The Partido Democratico had commissioned William Walker in Nicaragua in 1854 to fight the Partido Conservador . On September 14, 1856, as a colonel, he commanded a Nicaraguan unit with 120 to 160 soldiers. With this he beat about 300 mercenaries under the command of Byron Cole, the military service provider who brought Walker to Nicaragua at the Hacienda San Jacinto in the municipality of Tipitapa .
Afterlife
During the 1932 earthquake, Archbishop José Antonio Lezcano y Ortega rescued the urn from the rubble that was buried in the chapel of the Archbishop's Palace in Managua. In 1971, President Anastasio Somoza Debayle declared José Dolores Estrada Vado a national hero by decree. In 1999, on the 130th anniversary of his death, his remains were reburied in the parish church of his hometown in the presence of President Arnoldo Alemán and Cardinal Miguel Obando Bravo .
literature
- Alejandro Barberena Pérez: José Dolores Estrada, héroe nacional de Nicaragua (= Colección Ediciones nicaragüenses de cultura general ). Tipografía Asel, Managua 1965.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Estrada Vado, José Dolores |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Military in Nicaragua |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1792 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nandaime |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1869 |
| Place of death | Managua |