Juan Pablo Duarte
Juan Pablo Duarte y Díez (January 26, 1813 – July 15, 1876) was a
Dominican military leader, writer, activist, and
nationalist politician who was the foremost of the Founding Fathers of the
Dominican Republic and bears the title of
Father of the Nation. As one of the most celebrated figures in
Dominican history, Duarte is considered a
folk hero and revolutionary visionary in the modern Dominican Republic, who, along with military generals
Matías Ramón Mella and
Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, organized and promoted
La Trinitaria, a secret society that eventually led to the Dominican revolt and independence from
Haitian rule in 1844 and the start of the
Dominican War of Independence.
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