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Venezuelan War of Independence
Part of Spanish American wars of independence

La Batalla de Carabobo, Martín Tovar y Tovar
Date19 April 1810 – 24 July 1823
(13 years, 3 months and 5 days)
Location
Venezuela and New Granada
Result Patriot victory
Territorial
changes
Independence of Gran Colombia. Dismemberment of the Spanish empire.
Belligerents
Venezuelan War of Independence Patriots
1810:
Venezuelan War of Independence Caracas Junta
1811–1816:
Venezuelan War of Independence Venezuela
Venezuelan War of Independence Colombia
1816–1819:
Venezuelan War of Independence Venezuela
Venezuelan War of Independence Haiti[1]
1819–1823:
Venezuelan War of Independence Gran Colombia
Spanish Empire Royalists
Spain Spain
  • Spain Supreme Junta
  • Spain Governorate of Venezuela
  • Spain Governorate of Colombia
Commanders and leaders

Venezuelan War of Independence Simón Bolívar
(Commander-in-Chief)

  • Venezuelan War of Independence Cristóbal Mendoza
  • Venezuelan War of Independence Francisco Espejo
  • Venezuelan War of Independence Francisco de Miranda
  • Venezuelan War of Independence José Antonio Páez
  • Venezuelan War of Independence Antonio de Sucre
  • Venezuelan War of Independence José Félix Ribas  Executed
  • Venezuelan War of Independence Manuel Piar  Executed
  • Venezuelan War of Independence Rafael Urdaneta
  • Venezuelan War of Independence Carlos Soublette
  • Venezuelan War of Independence Santiago Mariño
  • Venezuelan War of Independence José Bermúdez
  • Venezuelan War of Independence Juan Arismendi
  • Venezuelan War of Independence José Anzoátegui
  • Venezuelan War of Independence Jacinto Lara
  • Venezuelan War of Independence José Tadeo Monagas
  • Venezuelan War of Independence Ambrosio Plaza  
  • Venezuelan War of Independence Manuel Cedeño  
  • Venezuelan War of Independence Francisco Gómez
  • Venezuelan War of Independence Luis Brión
  • Venezuelan War of Independence Gregor MacGregor
  • Venezuelan War of Independence Daniel O'Leary
  • Venezuelan War of Independence Atanasio Girardot  
  • Venezuelan War of Independence José Padilla

Spain Spanish Empire Ferdinand VII
(King of Spain from 1813)

  • Spain Pablo Morillo
  • Spain Miguel de la Torre
  • Spain José Tomás Boves 
  • Spain Francisco Morales
  • Spain Fernando Miyares
  • Spain D. de Monteverde
  • Spain José Ceballos
  • Spain Juan Manuel Cajigal
  • Spain Eusebio Antoñanzas
  • Spain Juan Vargas  Surrendered
  • Spain Francisco Rosete 
  • Spain Isidro Barrada Valdés
  • Spain Ramón Correa
  • Spain Ángel Laborde
  • Spain S. de la Calzada

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.

The establishment of the Supreme Caracas Junta following the forced deposition of Vicente Emparan as Captain General of the Captaincy General of Venezuela on 19 April 1810, marked the beginnings of the war. On 5 July 1811, seven of the ten provinces of the Captaincy General of Venezuela declared their independence in the Venezuelan Declaration of Independence. The First Republic of Venezuela was lost in 1812 following the 1812 Caracas earthquake and the 1812 Battle of La Victoria. Simón Bolívar led an "Admirable Campaign" to retake Venezuela, establishing the Second Republic of Venezuela in 1813; but this too did not last, falling to a combination of a local uprising and Spanish royalist reconquest. Only as part of Bolívar's campaign to liberate New Granada in 1819-20 did Venezuela achieve a lasting independence from Spain (initially as part of Gran Colombia).

On 17 December 1819, the Congress of Angostura declared Gran Colombia an independent country. After two more years of war, the country achieved independence from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of Simón Bolívar. Venezuela, along with the present-day countries of Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador, formed part of the Republic of Gran Colombia until 1830, when Venezuela separated and became a sovereign state.

  1. ^ Arana, M., 2013, Bolivar, New York: Simon & Schuster, ISBN 9781439110195, pp. 186

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