José Félix Ribas: The winner of tyrants (+Christmas)

General José Félix Ribas was an important figure in Venezuela's independence struggles. He was responsible for leading a battalion of young people inexperienced in the war to win the Battle of La Victoria on February 12, 1814, an action that earned him the title of “Winner of the Tyrants”, by El Libertador Simón Bolívar.

José Félix Ribas was born in Caracas on September 19, 1775, to a family of the Creole oligarchy. In 1796 he married Josefa Palacios, Simon Bolivar's aunt, an affiliation that would make him participate in Venezuela's independence quest, as was his participation in the Supreme Junta of Caracas, which was constituted in April 1810. In October of that same year — and as leader of the Caracas pardos — he organized a protest after the execution of 28 patriots by the realists in Quito. In addition, he participated in the meetings of the Patriotic Society to consummate the absolute independence of Venezuela.

His military career began as a colonel and head of the newly created White Ruled Militia battalion in Barlovento. In 1812, under the command of Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda, he participated in the campaign against Domingo Monteverde; then he went to Caracas to assume the position of military commander of the city, replacing Juan Nepomuceno Quero. That year, after the fall of the First Republic, José Félix Ribas and Simón Bolívar headed to Curaçao and then to New Granada, where Bolívar began the Campaign to the Magdalena River, and from there the Admirable Campaign, which will end on August 13, 1813 with the triumphant entry of the Liberator to Caracas, and he gives back to Ribas by appointing him as Commander General of the Province, and his subsequent promotion as Major General.

Mazo News Team