Ducoudray holstein biography definition
In , a revolutionary expedition led by a veteran of the Napoleonic wars, Henri Louis Villaume de Ducoudray-Holstein, departed from the.!
Henri La Fayette Villaume Ducoudray Holstein
Henri Louis La Fayette Villaume Ducoudray Holstein (born Heinrich Ludwig Villaume, 23 September 1772 in Schwedt/Oder, Uckermark, Brandenburg, Prussia[1] – 23 April 1839 in Albany, New York) was a soldier in France and Venezuela, and an author in the United States.
Biography
Decoudray Holstein was an officer in the French Army under Napoleon and was taken prisoner in Cádiz, Spain.
American journalist () In more languages Spanish Henri Louis Villaume Ducoudray Holstein periodista estadounidense.
In 1813 Ducoudray Holstein departed for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but was denied entry in the U.S. Army. In 1814 he arrived at Cartagena de Indias, where he joined Simón Bolívar and was appointed officer in the army. With the grade of colonel he was an eye witness of the crucial revolutionary years 1814-1816.
In Cartagena he was first in the Corsairs of French privateer Louis Aury, with whom he maintained a friendship, and later at militia corps of General Manuel del Castillo y Rada, who just fought the royalists of Santa Marta during the l