Manuel Piar
Manuel Carlos Piar Gómez ( April 28, 1774 - October 16, 1817 in Angostura ) was a Venezuelan military and hero of the Wars of Independence .
youth
Manuel Piar was born in Willemstad , Curaçao , in 1774 . He was the son of Fernando Alonso Piar, a Spaniard from the Canary Islands and the slave Mary Isabel Gómez.
Life
In 1797, at the age of 23, he joined the Gual and España independence movement. After the failure of the conspiracy, he had to flee Venezuela. Piar was then ensign to Francisco de Miranda . He took part in the battles of Puerto Cabello and Sorondo, in Guiana, in 1812 . After the fall of the First Republic, he had to flee to Trinidad. He then fought on the side of General Santiago Mariño and thus became one of the leading military during the Second Republic. He supported the principles of the Cariaco Congress, according to which Simón Bolívar should no longer have sole leadership. Furthermore, he wanted to bring the race question into the independence movement, which Bolívar, the Haitian pardocracy (rule of brown-skinned) in mind, strictly rejected. That is why Bolívar withdrew him from his troops. Piar had to resign, was arrested on September 28, 1817, sentenced to death on October 15, 1817 and executed on October 16 in Angostura (today Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela).
credentials
- ^ Archived copy ( memento of March 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). LA EMIGRACIÓN Y SU TRASCENDENCIA EN LA HISTORIA DEL PUEBLO CANARIO (VIII)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Piar, Manuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Piar Gómez, Manuel Carlos (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Venezuelan military and hero of the Wars of Independence |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1774 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 16, 1817 |
| Place of death | Angostura |