Henri La Fayette Villaume Ducoudray Holstein

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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

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

Río Magdalena. When a government crisis arose in January 1815 as a result of several coups in a short period of time, Villaume stood at the side of Castillo y Rada, who ended the political instability militarily. Here he married the neogranadine
María del Carmen.

When general Pablo Morillo lay siege to Cartagena from late August to early December 1815, he served as General defending the fortress Boca Chica on the island of Tierra Bomba in the harbor entrance. The day before the surrender, he fled to Haiti with the Venezuelan officers of Bolivar on the ship of his friend, the naval commander of Cartagena, Louis Aury.

He met the Liberator Simón Bolívar in January 1816 in

Aux Cayes
, Haiti in order to get by there as a bookseller and music teacher.

In 1822, Ducoudray Holstein conceived, carefully planned, organized and directed a for-profit commercial enterprise seeking to invade the Spanish colony of Puerto Rico and declare it the independent “Republica Boricua.”[2]

His experience with Bolívar and with the independence wars in Venezuela are described in Holstein, Henri Louis Ducoudray (12 January 2011). Memoirs of Simón Bolívar.

ISBN 978-1456545116
.

He later moved to the United States, settling in Albany, New York, where he became a language teacher and editor of The Zodiac.

Family

He married Maria del Carmen (c. 1800 Colombia - 1 May 1855 Albany, New York); they had son Lafayette Ducoudray Holstein (1 August 1826 New York - 7 April 1864).[3]

Works

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Christensen, Erichsen, Thorsager, Villaume, Wøldike og alle de andre - Personside".
  2. ^ Cedó Alzamora, Federico (2010), Mayagüëz Capital de la Republica Boricua (PDF) (in Spanish) (2 ed.), Mayagüez: Oficina de Publicaciones Históricas, Museo Eugenio María de Hostos, Departamento de Arte y Cultura, Gobierno Municipal de Mayagüez, p. 44
  3. ^ "Henri Louis Villaume".

References

External links

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