Antonio Nicolás Briceño: The Devil who faced the Spanish yoke with his gallantry (+seeding)
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Published at: 15/06/2025 08:26 AM
On June 15, 1813, Antonio Nicolás Briceño, a prominent colonel lawyer and hero of Independence, better known as “The Devil”, was shot by the royalists in the city of Barinas.
He was one of the protagonists of July 5, 1811, when he signed the Act of Independence. He became one of Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda's trusted men.
The Capitulation of 1812 led him to exile, but in 1813 he devised a plan from Cartagena, Colombia, a kind of “Proclamation of War to the Death”.
On June 15 of that same year of his shooting, precisely El Libertador Simón Bolívar issued his Decree of War to the Death in Trujillo. Briceño was promoted to the rank of post-mortem general.
Mazo News Team