Second Republic of Venezuela

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The Second Republic of Venezuela was a short-lived early 19th-century Venezuelan state established during the struggle for independence from Spanish colonial rule, ultimately collapsing amid royalist resistance and internal instability.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Venezuelan revolutionary state
former republic
historical state
capital Caracas
characterizedBy military campaigns against royalists
political instability
social tensions between classes and castes
commander Santiago Mariño
Simón Bolívar
continent South America
country Venezuela
currency Venezuelan peso
dissolvedBy Spanish royalist army
surface form: José Tomás Boves’s royalist forces
endCause collapse under royalist resistance and internal instability
royalist reconquest of Venezuela
endDate 1814
establishedBy Venezuelan War of Independence
surface form: Patriots of Venezuelan independence

Simón Bolívar
flagUsed tricolor flag of Venezuela with horizontal stripes
followedBy Gran Colombia
Third Republic of Venezuela
governmentType republic
historicalEra The Age of Revolution
surface form: Age of Revolution

Spanish American wars of independence era
language Spanish
leader Santiago Mariño
Simón Bolívar
legislature patriot-controlled institutions in Caracas
locatedIn Venezuela
opposedBy José Tomás Boves
Spanish Empire
royalist forces in Venezuela
partOf Latin American independence movements
surface form: Spanish American wars of independence

Venezuelan War of Independence
precededBy First Republic of Venezuela
reasonForFailure internal political divisions
military defeats by royalist llanero forces
social and racial conflicts
strong royalist resistance
religion Roman Catholicism
significantEvent Admirable Campaign
fall of Caracas to royalist forces in 1814
massive llanero uprisings led by Boves
startDate 1813
startEvent Admirable Campaign
Bolívar’s entry into Caracas in 1813

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Venezuelan War of Independence notableEvent Second Republic of Venezuela
First Republic of Venezuela followedBy Second Republic of Venezuela
Captaincy General of Venezuela followedBy Second Republic of Venezuela
Decree of War to the Death context Second Republic of Venezuela
Third Republic of Venezuela precededBy Second Republic of Venezuela
Capitulation of San Mateo precedes Second Republic of Venezuela
Fall of Caracas to Spanish royalist forces followedBy Second Republic of Venezuela
Caracas Province historicalEra Second Republic of Venezuela
this entity surface form: Early republican Venezuela