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José Gregorio Monagas (4 May 1795 – 15 July 1858) was President of Venezuela 1851-1855 and brother of José Tadeo Monagas. General José Gregorio Monagas was born in Aragua de Barcelona, Venezuela, in 1795. His parents were Francisco José Monagas, a merchant from the Canary Islands, and Perfecta Burgos, a native of Cojedes.〔http://www.gluv.org/proceres%20masones/Jose%20Tadeo%20Monagas.htm. JOSE TADEO MONAGAS (In Spanish). Accessed October 6, 2010 at 12:50 pm.〕 Monagas started his military career at an early age, in 1813, along with his brother José Tadeo. ==Military career== During Venezuela's emancipation war, Monagas participated in several important campaigns against Spanish royalists Juan Domingo de Monteverde and José Tomás Boves. Because of his brave participation in the Battle of Carabobo, Venezuelan independence hero Simón Bolívar dubbed him the ''First Spear of the East''. In 1851, José Gregorio Monagas succeeded his brother José Tadeo Monagas as President of Venezuela. During his presidency, Monagas proclaimed Venezuela to be a nation free of slavery, in an edict signed on March 24, 1854. This decision was one of the main causes of the Federal War. The combined rule of Jose Tadeo and Jose Gregorio Monagas (1847-1858) is commonly referred to as the ''Monagas Dynasty'', or ''Monagato''. In 1858, Monagas was captured in Barcelona by general Justo Briceño. He was then sent to the Castle of San Carlos del Zulia. In July, Zulia's governor José Serrano ordered him to be transferred to Maracaibo, where he died upon arrival on 15 July 1858. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「José Gregorio Monagas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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