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Benigno del Castillo (1830 – July 4, 1861) was a Dominican lawyer and writer. He was a martyr of the Dominican Restoration War.
Life
editAlthough it is stated that his birth was in Baní, in 1830, his intellectual development took place in Santo Domingo. He was a lawyer, eloquent speaker, and writer with a great talent for poetry and patriotism who was capable of dying as he died for the independence of his country.[1]
He was an officer in the campaigns against the Haitian invasions. In the Cibaeño Revolution against Buenaventura Báez, Castillo was on the official side, the Baecista. When the government fell, he went into exile with his leader, there he enlisted in the patriotic expedition led by Francisco del Rosario Sánchez and entered the Dominican Republic at the end of June 1861. He fell prisoner alongside the hero and with him he went down to the tomb and climbed up to glory before the executioners who killed him, on July 4, 1861, in San Juan de la Maguana.[2]He was approximately 31 years old.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Mejía, Rafael Chaljub (2007). Diccionario Biográfico de los Restauradores de la República [Biographical Dictionary of the Restorers of the Republic] (in Spanish). Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. p. 64. ISBN 9789945859126.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Mejía, Rafael Chaljub (2007). Diccionario Biográfico de los Restauradores de la República [Biographical Dictionary of the Restorers of the Republic] (in Spanish). Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. pp. 64–65. ISBN 9789945859126.
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