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Gabino Puello de Castro (1816 – December 23, 1847) was a Dominican revolutionary who was a prominent leader in the Dominican War of Independence. Gabino Puello was entrusted to travel to the South in order to publicize the Dominican Act of Independence, of January 16, 1844. He took advantage of the fact that he was going to play parties to carry out his revolutionary activities.
Life
[edit]He was born in Puerto Rico around the year 1816, son of Martín Joaquín Puello and María Merced de Castro, both Dominicans who were free blacks. Due to circumstance, he was born there, but he was raised and educated in Santo Domingo, along with his parents and other siblings. From a very young age he learned music.[1]
During the years of the Haitian occupation, he enlisted in the Haitian Army and gradually rose the ranks. In 1833, he was promoted to Sergeant, and in 1839, he was sergeant major of the 31st Regiment. (By 1845, he was a colonel in the Dominican Army and later reached the rank of General due to his accumulated merits.
Together with his brothers, José Joaquín and Eusebio they became interested in the movement that Juan Pablo Duarte was carrying out, with the founding of the secret society La Trinitaria, started in 1838.
The said movement was integrated with body and soul. Gabino Puello was entrusted to travel to the South in order to publicize the Act of Independence, of January 16, 1844. He took advantage of the fact that he was going to play parties to carry out his revolutionary activities. Later, he had a leading participation in the first and second Campaigns during the Dominican War of Independence.[1]
He was Commander of Arms of Samaná for some time, while in those functions he was accused along with his brother José Joaquín Puello of complicity in the revolutionary attempt, both of them dying by shooting, in Santo Domingo, on December 23, 1847, by orders of Pedro Santana.[1]
His remains were exalted in the National Pantheon
Personal life
[edit]He had several children: with Salomé Eraso, Agustina and Amelia; with Juana Rivera to Félix; and with Ana Ortega to Francisca.
See also
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Bibliography
[edit]- Garrido, Víctor. Los Puello. Santo Domingo, 1974.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Martínez, Rufino (1997). Diccionario biográfico-histórico dominicano, (1821-1930) (in Spanish). Santo Domingo: Editora de la Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. p. 410.