THE TRUE FATHER OF THE COUNTRY FINALLY REVEALED!

(1750–1816), New Granadan Great Colombian and later Venezuelan generalissimo revolutionist, born in Caracas. Francisco Miranda served in the Spanish army as a young man. Charged with defeating the largest British Army yet known in history in the Battle of Mobile, AL in 1781, and financed the Navy commanded by Francisco DeGrass to block the British Navy in the Battle of Yorktown in 1981. Generalissimo Miranda who wanted American help as a form of compensation for his giving of liberty to Americans from the British, to help him liberate the Spanish colonies, was betrayed by the leaders of the American Revolution. Later he went to London, where he tried unsuccessfully to interest the British government in the creation of an independent empire in Spanish colonies, but the British were resentful of Miranda’s actions during the American Revolution and did not want to support any liberation of Spanish colonies. From 1792 to 1798 he served in the army of revolutionary France. After participating in several battles, and saving France from her enemies, Miranda was enshrined forever in the Arch of Triumph in Paris, but the French would not go to war with Spain to liberate the Spanish Colonies. Neither did Catherine the Great of Russia after Generalissimo Miranda conquered the Crimean from the Turkish Empire and gave her as gift to Catherine who always wanted that Turkish Province and access of her empire to a warm port in the Black Sea. In 1806 he alone, without the support of any European or American led an expedition that attempted successfully to overthrow the Spanish regime in Venezuela. In 1810, on the outbreak of a revolution in that country, Miranda became the commander of the patriotic forces. He defeated the Spanish armies, and in April 1812 became dictator of Venezuela. He was compelled by the continuing betrayal of the leaders of the American Revolution who did not want him recognized as the father of the new country USA, thus wanted him dead, they conspired to surrender him to the Spanish royalists after which lived only three months (there is a statue of Miranda in Puerto Rico a the site where the Americans gave him to the Spanish); the Spanish took him from Puerto Rico to Spain where he was imprisoned until his death. Because of his independence for America, he is known globally as El Precursor (“The Forerunner”) or the obstetrician who delivered the new baby empire of America from the bloody British brutish mother country.
De Grass was hired with Francisco's gold to do what he did. No gold, no French pirate would have move a finger to fight for the inglo English speaking yankee pirates. They often fought each other for the Spanish gold.

The brilliant idea of the Yorktown was Generalissimo Francisco Miranda’s.

Ever since the discovery or rediscovery? of the Western Hemisphere by the Spaniard in 1492, under the orders of what some consider the person of the second millennium?, Queen Isabel, the lands had been of the then major European Crown, (Spain and Portugal.)

Then, the Spanish and the Portuguese divided the continent. A few centuries later, the Dutch, the French and last but not least, the English participated in the conquest, elimination and or exploitation of the Native Americans. The last two empires that came to the picture, decided to fight for the control of the northern part of the Western Hemisphere.

The cost of the French and English War forced these two rivals to piracy against each other and everybody near them. As a consequence, the colonies were taxed to pay for the war.

The thirteen British colonies used to constant fighting expanded the war from the Indians to the British. Boston, New York, the rebel capital Philadelphia and even the southern colonies of the Carolinas and Georgia fell to the most powerful army of the time, the British.

After the successful campaigns against the Colonial Army and with the support of the southern royalists, African slaves and Indian auxiliaries, the British fell strong enough to attack the Spanish and finish the Spanish presence from the northern continent once and for all. As soon as New Orleans would fall into British hands, the rebels could be surrounded, encircled by way of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. The entire northern continent could be ridden from enemy Spanish, French and rebels.

For this purpose, the most formidable British military forces in the Western Hemisphere of the times were assembled. The navy was under the command of Vice-Admiral Parker, and the army under Major General Campbell.

Spain had sent an expendable force to confront her most powerful rival in what appeared to be a hopeless fight. Spain knew that for six years the northern rebels had lost every major battle and city including the southern lands of the thirteen colonies.
Spain’s actions were designed as a delaying tactic while reconstituting its main, elite forces in the colonies of the south.

A non-Spaniard, who commanded a mostly non-Spaniard army of blacks, indians, confronted the British. His name was Francisco Miranda. He had been born in the most important Spanish colony, the New Kingdom of Granada. Francisco did not consider himself a Spaniard and like the northern rebels, he considered himself a citizen of a future new, independent country of the entire Western Hemisphere.

Generalissimo Miranda’s fight was not the delaying maneuver planned by the Spanish Empire. He thought of liberating the northern portion of the Western Hemisphere from the British and then the southern part of the Western Hemisphere from the Spanish. This fight was, his life’s purpose.He landed with his fellow Creole army on the Island of Santa Rosa near Pensacola on March 3, 1781. The most ferocious fight that the British had seen yet seen since 1770, followed, for two months.

Unexpectedly, the Creoles emerged victorious. The British raised a white flag to ask for a negotiated surrender. Under the terms of capitulation, Pensacola, Mobile, Alabama, and Florida were secured for the Spanish Empire.

Miranda and his army’s intent of liberation made, unknowingly, the most important and decisive contribution to the successful outcome of the revolution. He collected among rebels in the Caribbean 30.000 gold coins and hired the fleet of the French pirate, Francois de Grasse to block the British Fleet in the Chesapeake Bay. The British Navy was on its way to rescue the British Army that had retreated to Yorktown in the colony of Virginia.

Francisco Miranda and his “tocallo” Francois de Grasse created a window of opportunity offered to Washington for what became, at last, after more than half a dozen years of struggle, the final battle of the revolution.

The British government investigated what had happened. Lord Thomas Pownall, Governor of Trinidad and head of the British secret services for the Western Hemisphere, informed Prime Minister William Pitt, that Francisco Miranda had been the culprit of the decisive victory of the Continental Army and the liberty of the colonies. Overnight Francisco Miranda had become the Founding Father of the Founder Fathers of the new country, a sort of Fabius, the Roman General whose strategy defeated in the Second Punic War the Carthaginian Empire’s armies under the command of Hannibal.

When Francisco Miranda met George Washington in Philadelphia on the 8th and the 9th of December 1783 to discuss the liberation of the Spanish colonies, Washington snubbed and humiliated the Creole Miranda. Washington did not think that the former British colonies had any cultural affinity with the Spanish Kingdoms to become brothers and to form a new country, Colombia, of the entire Western Hemisphere. Miranda did not know that in 1741 when Washington’s elder brother, Lawrence, was playing pirate with the then chief pirate Vernon, Lawrence suffered a humiliating defeat to a Spanish called Blas. Blas blasted Vernon’s flotilla of pirates to oblivion in Cartagena. Lawrence counseled his younger brother George, prior to his death, “do not ever go out to sea against the Spaniards. You’ll do better getting rich fighting Indians and owning their lands”. George followed Lawrence advice and became the richest private land owner in the Northern Hemisphere.

Washington’s selfish personal reasons motivated disagreement with Miranda’s dream.
Washington was the wealthiest landowner in Virginia and planned to expand his conquest west to the Ohio territories, without risking what had been gained in another new war with the Spanish Empire, an empire so vast and so powerful at that time, that its global possessions spanned all twenty four of the world’s time-zones. Washigton’s narrow mindedness, ingratitude, jealousy and rigid pragmatism wounded Miranda’s pride and plan of liberating the entire hemisphere. Washington was also getting back to somebody from “Colombia” the same area where decades before his older brother Lawrence had been humiliated in a battle in Cartagena, now a city of Colombia. Washington had nourished a life time hatred to the Spanish and could not distinguish between a former enemy of his brother Lawrence, and a present Colombian friend and allied, Francisco Miranda. Miranda had been the obstetrician who delivered the baby new nation conceived by the Founding Fathers in their mother Congress. Washington could not give back the credit he stole from Francisco of being the Father of the Country. George was following Lawrence’s legacy of piracy but at a higher and more sophisticated level.

Thus, Miranda spent the coldest winter of his life. He left Philadelphia disappointed on January 16, 1784 for New York. There, Miranda met and befriended Alexander Hamilton and discussed with him his plans of liberation for the Spanish colonies and how a type of federalism and financial and economic unity could result in this new country of Colombia. Even though Hamilton sympathized with Miranda, Hamilton joined his commander in chief and agreed with the pragmatism of his decision. Hamilton used Miranda’s idea of federalism and financial structure for the new republic and national bank, with Madison in the new constitution.

The further north Miranda went, the more illustrative the cultural differences became obvious to him. Miranda visited the president of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut on July 25, 1784. He studied and discussed with him the Blue Laws of New Haven dating from 1639 which ordered the observance of the Sabbath under penalty of fines and lashes for any violator who did not attend church on Sunday or who would kiss his wife in public. For an atheist and agnostic, as Miranda was, the Blue Laws were as barbaric as he had ever known. Miranda thought that the revolution would not be complete until such laws were eliminated. The Yale president disagreed.

Miranda continued his journey north in what he described as the dullest period in his life.
He met with Samuel Adams on September 16, 1784 and the President of Harvard University, Dr. James Lloyd on October 18, 1784. Miranda found the usual New England disagreements about hemispheric solidarity with these gentlemen on cultural and political grounds.

Miranda visited Salem, the site of the infamous witch hunts and the lashing of inhabitants for failure to attend church. He found the preacher Murray barbarous, ignorant, racist, when the preacher called for the extermination of Mohammedans, Catholics and the Pope or “antichrist”.

Miranda’s dreams of emancipation for Colombia died among the people of New England with their crass fanaticism, puritanical laws and lack of appreciation for his contribution to their liberties. He had gained a faked acceptance and friendship of the Founding Fathers, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, etc, but not their support, recognition nor appreciation.

Otherwise, the capital of America may well have been named Francisco Miranda. Instead, his name is not found in any street or plaza in the United States. It is necessary to travel to Paris to see his name engraved in the Arc of Triumph among the others who rendered glorious service to Liberty. Interestingly, neither the name of George Washington nor of any of the “Founding Fathers” above is mentioned in the Arc. After 911, the government of Cesar Chavez gave the city of Philadelphia, a statue of Francisco Miranda, which can be seen today in the Benjamin Franklin Parkway near the Franklin Institute. None of the other forty nine states has any memorial in his name. Puerto Rico has a statute in the same spot where Francisco Miranda was handed to the Spaniards. He never saw liberty again. He was never recognized except by the Europeans in the Arch of Triumph of Paris.

The present American Empire borders limit in the Rio Grande, reinforced with a steel wall taller, longer and more powerful than the Berlin Wall, reinforced with police, army, helicopters, coast guard, vigilantes, surveillance cameras etc, and it is not one state to the Patagonia as Francisco dreamed. And a jet trip from coast to coast does not take place from San Francisco to Francisco Miranda, as it could have been. But the “plus ultra”, onwards and upwards and “non-sufficit orbis”, the world is not enough, do apply, economically, politically and militarily in the American Empire of the third millennium.