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Matías Ramón Mella Castillo (February 25, 1816 – June 4, 1864), best known by his middle name (Ramón), was a Dominican revolutionary, politician, and military general. Mella is regarded as a national hero in the Dominican Republic. He was a proclaimer of the First Dominican Republic, and a precursor to restoring Dominican independence.
Statues of the three founding fathers. From left to right: Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, Juan Pablo Duarte and Matías Ramón Mella. La Trinitaria (Spanish: [la tɾiniˈtaɾja], The Trinity) was a secret society founded in 1838 in what today is known as Arzobispo Nouel Street, across from the "Del Carmen's Church" in the then occupied Santo Domingo, the current capital of the Dominican Republic.
Ramón María Mella Brea (July 27, 1837 – March 21, 1868) was a Dominican independence activist. Son of the hero Matías Ramón Mella , he participated in the struggles against Spain in the 1860s. He was a martyr of the Six Years' War .
Among the known poems, written by Juan Pablo Duarte in Santo Domingo, are Tristezas de la noche, Santana, Canto de guerra, Antifona, El Criollo, Desconsuelo, Suplica, Himno, La Cartera del proscribado, and four other poems without titles. In his romantic production, is the poem Romance, the theme of bitterness is evident. Remoteness portrays ...
Ramón Matías Mella – one of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic; Fernando Arturo de Meriño – politician, theologian; The Mirabal sisters – political dissidents; Adolfo Alejandro Nouel – Santo Domingo archbishop and interim president; José Nuñez-Melo – Canadian politician
The Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo [a] (Spanish: Ocupación haitiana de Santo Domingo; French: Occupation haïtienne de Saint-Domingue; Haitian Creole: Okipasyon ayisyen nan Sen Domeng) was the annexation and merger of then-independent Republic of Spanish Haiti (formerly Santo Domingo) into the Republic of Haiti, that lasted twenty-two years, from February 9, 1822, to February 27, 1844.
The Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella (Orden al Mérito de Duarte, Sánchez y Mella) is the principal order of the Dominican Republic.It was established on 24 February 1931 as the Juan Pablo Duarte Order of Merit (Orden al Mérito Juan Pablo Duarte) and renamed on 9 September 1954.
The Battle of Sabana de San Pedro was a military confrontation of the Dominican Restoration War that occurred on January 23, 1864. The Spanish army under the command of Field Marshal Antonio Abad Alfau would prevent the Dominican Liberation Army commanded by General Gregorio Luperón from penetrating where the defense line that protected the City of Santo Domingo passed and would reconquer the ...