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Barcelona [1] is the capital of Anzoátegui State, [2] [3] Venezuela, [4] and was founded in 1671. Together with Puerto La Cruz , Lecheria and Guanta , Barcelona forms one of the most important urban areas of Venezuela, with a population of approximately 950,000.
The historical period between 1810 and 1830 has been divided by Venezuelan historiography into four parts: First Republic (1810 -1812), Second Republic (1813 -1814), Third Republic (1817-1819), and Gran Colombia (1819 -1830).
The beginning of the Third Republic of Venezuela is attributed to the period after the Guayana campaign , during which the Republicans restored democratic institutions in Angostura. The Republic ended, after the Congress of Angostura of 1819 decreed the union of Venezuela with New Granada , to form the Republic of Gran Colombia .
On 9 January 1817, 10 days after Bolívar's and Arismendi's arrival in mainland Venezuela, the force, which had been bolstered with 900 more soldiers, was on the way to Puerto Píritu. [2] It was there that they were attacked by a Royalist force from an entrenched position near the Unare River .
The Venezuelan War of Independence (Spanish: Guerra de Independencia de Venezuela, 1810–1823) was one of the Spanish American wars of independence of the early nineteenth century, when independence movements in South America fought a civil war for secession and against unity of the Spanish Empire, emboldened by Spain's troubles in the Napoleonic Wars.
She then married the English Colonel, Charles Chamberlain, who was attached to the Staff of General Bolivar. Chamberlain had been severely wounded in the battle of Unare Barracks and took refuge with Eulalia in Venezuela in Barcelona, Anzoátegui. On 7 April 1817 the Royalist Army took Barcelona.
Defeated in Ocumare de la Costa Bolívar returned from Haiti to Barcelona calling on all to join together, but first Bermúdez and Valdéz rebelled against Mariño, and then Mariño against Bolívar. In 1816 Bolívar used the island of Margarita as his base of operations and, in 1817, the Spanish General Pablo Morillo was driven off the island ...
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