PÁEZ, JOSÉ ANTONIO (General) Manuscript proclamation signed. Borburata near Puerto Cabello, 21 April 1822. Single page document signed "José A. Páez," written in brown ink on laid paper with a watermark of an anchor lettered "D. ANDREU," addressed to the inhabitants of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. 12 x 17 inches (31 x 42.5 cm). Remnants of original posting adhesive to corners, a few spots, a six inch tear up from the bottom left margin just touching text possibly from its rough removal after posting. The inhabitants of Puerto Cabello, the final Royalist stronghold in Venezuela, had resisted two earlier sieges by Simon Bolivar in 1813 and 1814. The city was heavily fortified and was a strategically valuable port (during the War of Jenkins' Ear it had repelled two English invasions). During the 1822 third siege of the city by José Antonio Páez, the war-hardened General in Chief of the liberation forces in Venezuela, the present proclamation was issued, urging the Royalists to surrender and offering a general amnesty and the inducement of joining the rest of free Venezuela ("la gran familia Colombiana"). The offer was denied and Puerto Cabello finally capitulated only on November 10, 1823. This document sold Sotheby's London, 20 November, 1990, . C
PÁEZ, JOSÉ ANTONIO (General) Manuscript proclamation signed. Borburata near Puerto Cabello, 21 April 1822. Single page document signed "José A. Páez," written in brown ink on laid paper with a watermark of an anchor lettered "D. ANDREU," addressed to the inhabitants of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. 12 x 17 inches (31 x 42.5 cm). Remnants of original posting adhesive to corners, a few spots, a six inch tear up from the bottom left margin just touching text possibly from its rough removal after posting. The inhabitants of Puerto Cabello, the final Royalist stronghold in Venezuela, had resisted two earlier sieges by Simon Bolivar in 1813 and 1814. The city was heavily fortified and was a strategically valuable port (during the War of Jenkins' Ear it had repelled two English invasions). During the 1822 third siege of the city by José Antonio Páez, the war-hardened General in Chief of the liberation forces in Venezuela, the present proclamation was issued, urging the Royalists to surrender and offering a general amnesty and the inducement of joining the rest of free Venezuela ("la gran familia Colombiana"). The offer was denied and Puerto Cabello finally capitulated only on November 10, 1823. This document sold Sotheby's London, 20 November, 1990, . C
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