Santiago Mariño

In this Hispanic American name, the first or paternal surname is Mariño and the second or maternal family name is Carige Fitzgerald.
Santiago Mariño
Portrait of Santiago Mariño by painter Martín Tovar y Tovar, oil on canvas, 1874
Born25 July 1788
Island of Margarita, Captaincy General of Venezuela, Spanish Empire
Died4 September 1854(1854-09-04) (aged 66)
La Victoria, Aragua, State of Venezuela
Allegiance Venezuelan republicans
RankChief of the General Staff
ConflictsBattle of Bocachica
Battle of Carabobo
Other workMinistry of War and Navy (1830s)

Santiago Mariño Carige Fitzgerald (25 July 1788 in Valle Espíritu Santo, Margarita – 4 September 1854 in La Victoria, Aragua), was a nineteenth-century Venezuelan revolutionary leader and hero in the Venezuelan War of Independence (1811–1823). He became an important leader of eastern Venezuela and for a short while in 1835 seized power over the new state of Venezuela.

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