Ezequiel Zamora

(1 February 1817 – 10 January 1860) was a Venezuelan soldier, and leader of the Federalists in
the Federal War (Guerra Federal) of 1859-1863. His life was marked by the romanticism that
characterized liberals of the time.

Zamora was born in Cúa, Miranda State. His parents were Alejandro Zamora and Paula
Correa, modest landowners belonging to the white social class. During the early years
of his childhood, he received a basic education, typical of a rural area still disrupted by
the struggle for independence from Spain.

Later, Zamora moved to Caracas, where he continued his primary school studies, the
only formal education he received. However, thanks to the influence of his brother-in-
law John Caspers, he received informal political training, influenced by the
revolutionary movements in Europe. Zamora completed his education thanks to his
friendly relationship with the lawyer José Manuel García. Zamora learned modern
philosophy and the foundations of Roman law, and soon advocated the "principles of
equality" and the need for their implementation in Venezuela.

Francisco de Miranda

Sebastián Francisco de Miranda y Rodríguez de Espinoza (Spanish pronunciation: ;

March 28, 1750 – July 14, 1816), commonly known as Francisco de Miranda, was a
Venezuelan military leader and revolutionary. Although his own plans for the
independence of the Spanish American colonies failed, he is regarded as a forerunner of
Simón Bolívar, who during the Spanish American wars of independence successfully
liberated much of South America. He was known as "The First Universal Venezuelan"
and "The Great Universal American". In the National Archive of Venezuela can be
found the statute of the blood purity of the father of Francisco de Miranda (book nine).[1]

Miranda led a romantic and adventurous life in the general political and intellectual
climate that emerged from the Age of Enlightenment that influenced all of the Atlantic
Revolutions. He participated in three major historical and political movements of his
time: the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolution and the Spanish
American wars of independence. He described his experiences over this time in his
journal, which reached to 63 bound volumes. An idealist, he developed a visionary plan
to liberate and unify all of Spanish America, but his own military initiatives on behalf of
an independent Spanish America ended in 1812. He was handed over to his enemies and
four years later, died in a Spanish prison