Manuel Carlos María Francisco Piar Gómez (April 28, 1774 - October 16, 1817) was General-in-Chief of the army fighting Spain during the Venezuelan War of Independence.

Heritage and early life

The son of Fernando Alonso Piar y Lottyn, a Spanish merchant seaman of Canarian origin and María Isabel Gómez, a Dutch woman born to an Afro-Venezuelan father and a Dutch mother in Willemstad, Curaçao,

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