Antonio Nicolás Briceño: The Devil who with his courage faced the Spanish yoke (+Christmas)
Internet photo
Published at: 29/04/2025 08:02 AM
On April 29, 1782, Antonio Nicolás Briceño, a prominent colonel lawyer and hero of Independence, better known as “The Devil”, was born in Mendoza, Trujillo.
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 “War to the Death Proclamation”.
On June 15 of that same year, he was shot by the royalists in the city of Barinas. Just when the Liberator Simon Bolivar issued his Decree of War to the Death in Trujillo.
Mazo News Team