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Antonio Duvergé Duval (1807 – April 11, 1855), was a Dominican Republic general, considered one of the most relevant figures during the Independence of the Dominican Republic.
The Dominican War of Independence (Spanish: Guerra de Independencia Dominicana) was a war of independence that began when the Dominican Republic declared independence from the Republic of Haiti on February 27, 1844 and ended on January 24, 1856.
Ana Valverde (1798 – November 20, 1864) was a militant from what is now the Dominican Republic who participated in the 1844 Dominican War of Independence against Haiti and, later, in the Dominican Restoration War against Spain.
Bust of Juana Saltitopa in Parque Independencia, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Juana Saltitopa was born in 1815 in the town Jamao, near the province La Vega. Unlike her sister, Mercedes, Juana was a very extroverted and energized woman that liked to climb trees and jump branch to branch. That earned her the nickname "Saltitopa".
The National Palace is the president's official workplace, the center of the administration, and a prominent symbol of the office.. Since independence in 1844, the Dominican Republic has counted 54 people in the presidential office, whether constitutional, provisional, or interim, divided into 66 periods of government.
Filomena Gómez de Cova (1800 – March 9, 1893) was a Dominican militant who participated in the Dominican War of Independence.Gómez, born into a long-established Dominican family, was a woman with broader horizons than other women of her time.
Manuela Díez Jiménez (June 26, 1786 – December 31, 1858) was a key female figure in the forming of the independence of the Dominican Republic.She was the mother of Juan Pablo Duarte, the founder of the Dominican Republic, or the so-called father of the nation.
Map of Colonial Santo Domingo from 1873. The red circle indicates the location of El Baluarte del Conde. La Puerta del Conde. La Puerta del Conde (The Count's Gate) was the main entrance to the fortified city of Santo Domingo (in present-day Dominican Republic), named to honor Governor Captain-General Bernardino de Meneses Bracamonte y Zapata, 1st Count of Peñalva, who during his tenure saved ...