1819: Antonia Santos, Bolivarian revolutionary
Add comment July 28th, 2019 Headsman
Today is the bicentennial of the July 28, 1819 execution by firing squad of Bolivarian independence heroine Maria Antonia Santos Plata.
This New Grenada peasant (English Wikipedia entry | the more extensive Spanish) led Bolivar-aligned guerrillas resisting the Spanish reconquest in her home Province of Socorro.
She was captured during the last months of Spanish hegemony, but even as she awaited execution of her sentence her comrades in arms continuing in the field played a part in the crucial Bolivarian victory at the Battle of Pantano de Vargas.
She was shot at 10:30 in the morning on the main square of Socorro, along with Pascual Becerra and Isidro Bravo.
A battalion of the Colombian army’s Seventh Brigade is named for Antonia Santos.
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Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Capital Punishment,Colombia,Death Penalty,Execution,Famous,Guerrillas,History,Martyrs,Occupation and Colonialism,Power,Public Executions,Revolutionaries,Shot,Soldiers,Treason,Wartime Executions,Women
Tags: 1810s, 1819, antonia santos, july 28, simon bolivar, socorro
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