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Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi


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Birth: September 25, 1799 Caracas, Venezuela.
Death: June 2, 1866 (66 years) Caracas Venezuela.
Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi (Caracas, September 25, 1799 - Caracas, 28 June 1866). Maria Luisa Caceres Diaz (known to history as Luisa Caceres de Arismendi) is one of the most notable female characters and the epic heroof independence of Venezuela. Wife of General Juan Bautista Arismendi.
Biography
Luisa Caceres de Arismendi Diaz was born in Caracas, Venezuela on September 25, 1799, eldest daughter of the marriage formed by the distinguished educator Jose Domingo Caceres, from the Canary Islands, and his wife Dina Carmen days, was baptized in the Iglesias Santa Rosalía. his father was a professor of Latin,took care to teach reading and writing, as well as normal and moral principles tested during the years of captivity and exile of the young patriot. had two brothers who followed Felix and Manuel Caceres.
Is educated to exercise the sacred ministry of wife and mother. for the delay was that the Colombian public instruction in 1813 at the time, his spirit was not cultivated, just learning to read andwrite and all the rules of sociability that transmitted from parents to children from distant times. But despite their lack Instruction Luisa could rise to his destiny and moral perfections childhood.
Early age Luisa Caceres was distinguished by her beauty. Of medium height, handsome features, was struck by his demeanor and courtesy. In 1814, before he was fifteen years of age was sought inmarriage by her parents at a young patriot then Colonel Juan Bautista Arismendi, widowed a few years ago Doña Maria del Rosario Ilara.
Family tragedy

General. Juan Bautista Arismendi. Husband of Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi. Oil Martín Tovar y Tovar 1874

The year 1814 was a year for the nascent republic side and also for the family Caceres; March 6 realistic troops stormed the garrison FranciscoRosete Ocumare and kill the father of Luisa who was there at the invitation of his friend commander Juan José Toro. The military command in Caracas, was headed by Colonel Juan Bautista Arismendi, organized an expedition of young students and go the 14th to the aid of the besieged patriots in Ocumare; among soldiers expedition was Felix Caceres, brother of Louise. Arismendi troops are defeated andFelix is taken prisoner and executed on March 16.
moreover successive defeats and offensive Jose Boves and his "Legion infernal" patriotic forces require to leave the square of Caracas, the July 7, 1814 is to retreat to the east led by Simón Bolívar and José Felix Ribas (known fact in Venezuelan history as emigration to the East), between running the family emigrated Caceres, during the voyageLuisa aunts die 4 with only her mother and younger brother. The emigrants passing through Barcelona and Cumana target where they arrived in late August, but the calm is briefly as the city takes Boves.

Many of them get through to Margarita where Arismendi can offer some security. Colonel Caceres family looking Arismendi, who had known and frequented by some time in Caracas at Christmas 18143,provides clothing, shelter and other resources. On December 4, 1814 Luisa Cáceres married Colonel Juan Bautista Arismendi.
Presidio in Margarita Island
The castle Santa Rosa

For the year of 1815 is Arismendi provisional governor, the moment arrived Margarita Island General Paul Morillo Realistic leading a squad as never never been seen off the coast of Venezuela. Spanish is initiated harassmentthroughout the territory of the republic, for a few months living in the outskirts of Asuncion on espionage and pressure on Spanish authorities maintain patriot sympathizers in September 1815 isla. En ordered arrest Arismendi, escapes and hides it with one of his sons in the mountains of Copey, on September 24 Luisa, who was pregnant, is taken hostage to subdue her husband and locked under...