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  Sucre, Antonio José de on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Bolívar was absent, and Sucre was the chief commander when the battle of Ayacucho was fought (Dec., 1824).
The terms he granted to the defeated were generous, and Sucre was known for his kindness as well as his honesty and self-effacing modesty.
Sucre's efforts to prevent Venezuela from seceding and becoming a separate state failed.
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 Ecuador in the Gran Colombia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Leader of this movement is Jose de Antepara, old secretary of the " Precursor " Francisco de Miranda, who agglutinates clandestinely around the patriotic Creoles, three Venezuelan officials of the Battalion " Numancia ", Leon Febres Cordero, Luis Urdaneta and Miguel Letamendi, coming from Lima and by passage in Guayaquil course to Caracas.
Both, Bolivar and Sucre found in Quito affection that illuminate their lives: the Liberator met Manuela Saenz, since then she accompanies him with love and fidelity in all test and later she puts in risk her life saving Bolivar´s life in the attack on September.
Jose Maria Obando, the widow of Sucre manages to rescue his reminds, lovingly takes care of and hid them, saving them after painful peregrination: Today they are venerated in austere Mausoleum of the Cathedral of Quito.
www.fuerzasarmadasecuador.org /english/historia/ecuadorgrancolombia.htm   (1063 words)

  
 Travel in Sucre-Bolivia-History-WorldTravelGate.net®-
Potosi was preceded by Chuqisaca, later renamed Sucre, which was founded in 1538 and later became the administrative capital of the Spanish colonial rule.
General Antonio Jose de Sucre, who, in command of Colombian troops, played a leading role in the defeat of the Spanish garrison, was elected as the first president.
La Plata became "Sucre" in recognition of the valuable role played by Bolivar’s second-in-charge, General Jose de Sucre, in the country’s battle for freedom and independence.
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 Antonio Jose de Sucre Biography / Biography of Antonio Jose de Sucre Main Biography
Antonio José de Sucre (1795-1830) was a Venezuelan general and first constitutional president of Bolivia.
Antonio José de Sucre was born on Feb. 3, 1795, at Cumaná in eastern Venezuela.
A brief account of Sucre's life is Guillermo Antonio Sherwell, Antonio José de Sucre (Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho), Hero and Martyr of American Independence (1924), and a section is devoted to him in William S. Robertson, The Rise of the Spanish-American Republics, as Told in the Lives of Their Liberators (1918).
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 ipedia.com: Antonio José de Sucre Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Antonio José de Sucre was born in Cumaná, Venezuela, then part of the Spanish colony of Nueva G...
Sucre was elected president of the newly formed nation of Bolivia in 1826, but dissatisfied with political conflicts resigned two years later and moved to Quito.
Sucre headed to Quito to try to prevent this, but en route was assassinated in the mountainous region of Berruecos, near Pasto, in the south of Colombia.
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 AllRefer.com - Antonio JosE de Sucre (Latin American History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
After Colombia had been liberated from the Spanish, BolIvar sent Sucre to the Quito region (now Ecuador), where he won (1822) the brilliant victory of Pichincha.
BolIvar was absent, and Sucre was the chief commander when the battle of Ayacucho was fought (Dec., 1824).
He was elected president of the constitutional convention that met in 1830 in an effort to prevent BolIvar's large republic of Colombia from disintegrating.
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 AllRefer.com - Sucre, South America (South American Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Sucre was founded in 1538 and called La Plata; the city was also called Chuquisaca and Charcas.
The city lies in a mountain valley on the eastern slope of the Andes at an altitude of c.8,500 ft (2,590 m).
Sucre is a major agricultural center and supplies the mining communities of the barren altiplano.
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 Antonio Jose de Sucre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Antonio Jose de Sucre Alcala, born in Cumana (Venezuela), on February 3rd, 1975, his father was; Vicente de Sucre Urbaneja, colonel of the Royal Armies, and his mother was Manuela Maria Alcalá; they were part of the high society, of noble blood and had a good economic situation.
At the young age of fifteen Antonio had already become a combatant in the patriot army.
It is so pleasant to remember Sucre, as an invincible American soldier who in Boyacá, Pichincha and Ayacucho, with his glorious sword, gave the liberty and independence to the American people.
www.fuerzasarmadasecuador.org /english/historia/ecuadorgrancolombiasucre.htm   (134 words)

  
 Cumana Yours - Venezuela   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It is a flat city, dominated by a hill with a castle, where you have a beautiful view of the whole city and the gulf of Cariaco, that separates the peninsula of Araya from the rest of the country.
Cumana is where one of the most important Venezuelans, Antonio Jose de Sucre, was born.
Sucre won the battle of Ayacucho, which consolidated the independence of the South America from Spain.
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 Antonio Jose de Sucre
Antonio Jose de Sucre is a small cooperative of about 3 square blocks.
The second building serves two functions: the first floor is a day care center/preschool run by Nuevo Mundo, the second floor serves as living quarters for year long volunteers.
Antonio Jose de Sucre is an older neighborhood than El Arbolito and therefore in many ways more progressed.
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 Bolivia Web - Bolivia and Main Cities - Sucre
In 1559, Spanish king Felipe II commanded the foundation of the Audiencia de Charcas, with its headquarters in the city of La Plata with the purpose of administering the eastern territories.
On August 11th, the name of the city of La Plata was changed to Sucre in honor of Mariscal Antonio José de Sucre, who along with Bolivar, fought for independence from the Spanish rule.
Casa de la Libertad: House located on the main plaza, where the declaration of independence of Bolivia was signed on august 6th, 1825.
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 Antonio Jose de Sucre --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
During the Latin American wars for independence from Spain, Antonio José de Sucre was the liberator of Ecuador.
Sucre was born on Feb. 3, 1795, in Cumaná, New Granada—a Spanish colony comprising what is now Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama.
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 Quito - Plaza de la Independencia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1811 Antonio José de Sucre joined the forces fighting for independence from Spain and rose to be the chief lieutenant of Simón Bolívar.
Bolívar was absent, and Sucre was the chief commander when the battle of Ayacucho was fought that December.
He is buried in the Cathedral across from the Plaza de la Independencia.
www.ourheritage.net /Great_Adventures/Adventures_Abroad/Ecuador_and_the_Galapagos/Quito/Independence_plaza.html   (262 words)

  
 Bolivia in 2004 (4 Sucre & Santa Cruz)
Founded in 1538 with the name La Plata, the city was made the seat of the "Audiencia de Chacras" to administer Alto Peru in 1559.
After independence from Spain in 1825 its name was changed to Sucre to honour Antonio Jose de Sucre and Alto Peru became Bolivia to honour Simon Bolivar.
Sucre's altitude of 2790 m was better for me that Potosi's 4070 m but I was looking forward to breathing even better in Santa Cruz (437 m), after a 15 hour overnight bus ride.
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 LATIN AMERICAN MSS.--ECUADOR
Of the several Simon Bolivar items in the collection, the most interesting is his letter to Jose de San Martin, written the day before their famous meeting at Guayaquil in 1822.
Two nineteenth century accounting books; Francisco Jose de Caldas y Tenorio's Relacion de un viaje...containing information on the natural history of Ecuador; correspondence to and from Manuela Saenz; the 1861 constitution of Ecuador by Gabriel Garcia Moreno; and powers of attorney ranging from 1546 to 1815 are all in the collection.
In the volume number 14 is the "Acta de Federacion de las Provincias Unidas de la Nueva Granada..." Bogota, 1812.
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 Untitled Document
Sucre, the judicial capital of Bolivia, is definitely Bolivia’s most beautiful city.
1825 Simon Bolivar officially named Sucre in honor of General Antonio Jose de Sucre, the first promoter Bolivia’s independence from the Spanish Viceroyalty in Buenos Aires.
You can take of tour of the house, were it holds the first flag of independent Argentina and the sword of Antonio Jose de Sucre.
www.centellas.org /andres/ingles/sucre.htm   (200 words)

  
 Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
Son of the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera, he began a legal career in 1925.
More results on "Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera" when you join.
eldest son of the dictator General Miguel Primo de Rivera and the founder of the Spanish fascist party, the Falange.
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 Search Results for sucre - Encyclopædia Britannica
In recognition of Bolívar's support, congressional leaders named the new republic Bolivia in his honour, and they invited Sucre, his chief aide, to be the first president.
On the Caribbean Sea, near the centre of the twin peninsulas Araya and Paria, Carúpano is the commercial nucleus and principal port of...
On the Manzanares River, 1 mile (1.6 km) inland from its port, Puerto Sucre, on the Caribbean Sea at the mouth of the river, Cumaná...
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 Galan, Antonio Jose --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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The site was a stopping place for traders along the trail leading through the Texas wilderness, and the mission was named San Antonio de Valero.
A novelist, essayist, and the foremost Spanish literary critic of his day, José Martínez Ruiz was one of a group of writers who were engaged at the turn of the 20th century in a concerted attempt to revitalize Spanish life and letters.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Jose Antonio Paez
Páez, José Antonio (1790-1873), Venezuelan independence leader and president (1831-35, 1838-43, 1846-47), born in Acarigua.
Especially important were university students organized in the Revolutionary Directorate, an independent group led by José Antonio Ecchevarría.
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 Cronología de la Historia Resumida del Ecuador   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1870 Antonio Flores Jijón (son of Juan José Flores and future president of Ecuador) consults the Archives of Simancas in Spain and concludes that the Royal Decree of 1802 gave the Viceroyalty of Peru total jurisdiction over Mainas.
- The "Junta Militar de Gobierno" of Guayaquil is in disagreement with the "Junta de Gobierno Provisional."
The "Ley de Colonización" for the land in the eastern jungles is passed.
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 Ecuador History Ecuador, a brief history of Ecuador
Independence was finally achieved by Simon Bolivar on May 24, 1822, but the independence forces were lead by Antonio José de Sucre.
Independence was finally achieved by Simón Bolívar on May 24, 1822, but the independence forces were lead by Antonio José de Sucre.
One key figure during these years was the five-time President, Jose María Velasco Ibarra.
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 ECONOMIC HISTORY OF BOLIVIA
The area was finally liberated in 1825 by Simon Bolivar forces under the command of Antonio José de Sucre.
Gonzalo Sanchez de Losada is an individual with profound economic insights to the problems of Bolivia; Jeffrey Sachs referred to him as a genius.
In 1993 Gonzalo Sanchez de Losada representing the party of the MNR won the presidency and governed until his term ended in 1997.
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 Daniel A. Del Rio - Bolivarian Collection of Documents 1538-1933.
Documents to and from military leaders on both sides of the War for Independence describe day to day events of the war (requests for supplies, mess, prisoner and hospital lists, etc.).
Among the loyalists represented are: José Fernando de Abascal y Souza, Fernando VII, José Antonio de Areche, Gerónimo de Marrón y Lombera, José de Mendizábal e Imaz, Joaquín de la Pezuela, José Manuel Goyeneche, and Manuel Quimper.
Also in the collection are two letters by Secretary of State William E. Seward, and two 16th century documents signed by the "conquistadores" Francisco Pizarro and Juan de la Torre.
www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/eresources/archives/collections/html/4078692.html   (211 words)

  
 Antonio José de Sucre
Sucre, Antonio José de, 1795–1830, South American revolutionist, b.
He joined (1811) the forces fighting for independence from Spain and rose to be the chief lieutenant of Simón
After Colombia had been liberated from the Spanish, Bolívar sent Sucre to the Quito region (now Ecuador), where he won (1822) the brilliant victory of
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 Louisiana Timeline: Year 1821
Liberators Antonio Jose de Sucre and Simon Bolivar are both dead.
Slaves rescued from the schooner Comet enroute from Virginia to New Orleans are freed by British authorities in the Bahamas.
Europe: Charles X of France is deposed in favor of Louis Philippe, duc c'Orleans, even though other factions wished to form a republic with the marquis de Lafayette as president.
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 Ayacucho
On the plains of Ayacucho, near the city, Antonio José de
José de la Serna - Serna, José de la, 1770–1832, Spanish general, viceroy of Peru (1821–24).
Antonio José de Sucre - Sucre, Antonio José de, 1795–1830, South American revolutionist, b.
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 The History of Ecuador - Learn While Volunteering   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Finally, on May 24, 1822, independence was won by the armies of Simon Bolivar, with the key battles in Ecuador lead by Antonio Jose de Sucre, one of Bolivar's field marshals.
After an unsuccessful federation with Colombia and Venezuela, Ecuador became an independent nation in 1830.
History evolved around the figure of the first President, Venezuelan-born General Juan Jose Flores.
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 Antonio José de Sucre
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