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Colonel Remigio Díaz commanding his force of 150 men moved along the shore of a "Sicatacaro" ravine, heading northeast from Ojojona to the Valle de la Trinidad to attack the enemy's rear. General Morazán along with Colonel Román Valladares in command of the other detachment of the Allied forces surrounded the "Caranguije" hill and attacked ...
This led to the Spanish governor José María Chacón offering to capitulate; on the following day, the island of Trinidad surrendered to the British arms, without an effort at defence and without any casualties. Abercromby made Thomas Picton governor of Trinidad as a British crown colony, with a French-speaking population and Spanish laws.
The first-ever contact with Europeans occurred when Christopher Columbus, who was on his third voyage of exploration, arrived at noon on 31 July 1498. [3] He landed at a harbor he called Point Galera, while naming the island Trinidad, before proceeding into the Gulf of Paria via the Serpent's Mouth and the Caribbean Sea via Dragon's Mouth.
Picton's birthplace in Hill Street, Haverfordwest, marked with a commemorative blue plaque.The house later became the Dragon Hotel. Thomas Picton was the seventh of 12 children of Thomas Picton (1723–1790) of Poyston Hall, Pembrokeshire, Wales, and his wife, Cecil née Powell (1728–1806). [9]
Trinidad and Tobago: National Joint Action Committee: Victory. Arrests of Black Power leaders; In response, a portion of the Trinidad Defense Force, led by Raffique Shah and Rex Lassalle, mutinied and took hostages at the army barracks at Teteron; The mutiny was contained and the mutineers surrendered on April 25; Jamaat al Muslimeen Coup ...
Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad, nicknamed La Real, was a Spanish first-rate ship of the line and was the largest warship in the world when launched. She originally had 112 guns; this was increased in 1795–96 to 130 guns by closing in the spar deck between the quarterdeck and forecastle .
Trinidad and Tobago, [a] officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean.Comprising the main islands of Trinidad and Tobago, along with numerous smaller islands, it is located 11 kilometres (6 nautical miles) northeast off the coast of Venezuela, 130 kilometres (70 nautical miles) south of Grenada, and west of Barbados.
Morazán went to the town of Sabanagrande to prepare for a decisive fight in the Valle de la Trinidad. At 9am on November 11, 1827, the first movement of maneuvers was carried out by Colonel Ramón Pacheco. He positioned himself to defend the Avenue that leads from Ojojona to the Valle de la Trinidad. He then attacked Milla's center line.