Manuel Piar
Manuel Carlos Piar Gómez ( * 1774, † October 16, 1817 ) was a Venezuelan military and hero of the War of Independence.
Youth
Manuel Piar was born in Willemstad, Curaçao, in 1774. He was the son of Fernando Alonso Piar, a Spanish pilot of the Canary Islands and Mary Isabel Gómez, a slave.
Life
At 23, he joined in 1797 the independence movement of Gual and España. After the failure of the conspiracy he had to flee from Venezuela. Piar was then an ensign in Francisco de Miranda. He took in the battles of Puerto Cabello and Sorondo, in Guyana, in 1812, in part. After the fall of the First Republic, he was forced to flee to Trinidad. He then worked on the side of General Santiago Mariño and thus became one of the senior military during the Second Republic.
On 8 May 1817, he supported the principles of the Cariaco Congress, according to Simón Bolívar should no longer have the sole leadership. In addition, he wanted to wear the race question in the independence movement, which rejected Bolivar Haitian Pardokratie mind - strict. Therefore Bolívar revoked him of his troops. Piar was forced to resign.
On April 28, 1817 Piar was arrested. On October 16, 1817, he was executed.
Credentials
- Venezuelan
- Military person (Venezuela )
- History of Venezuela
- Born in 1774
- Died in 1817
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