Vicente Salias recognition of the Supreme Junta of Caracas as the legitimate councilor of Venezuela in the absence of the King. Salias along with Mariano Montilla were sent by the Junta to Jamaica and Curaçao to spread the news about revolutionaries events in Venezuela.In charged of the Ministry of Finance, and collaborated with General Francisco de Miranda during the First Republic of Venezuela. He was captured by the Spaniards and was transferred to the castle of Puerto Cabello and Valencia, which then was released 1813. Salias fought alongside Simon Bolivar, Venezuela's liberator, and in the year 1814 he was captured and executed
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. World War II. Buckner, Lesley J. McNair, Frank Maxwell Andrews, and Millard Harmon, all lieutenant generals at the time of their deaths, were the highest-ranking Americans to be killed in World War II. Buckner and McNair were posthumously promoted to the rank of four-star general on July 19, 1954, by a Special Act of Congress (Public Law 83-508). Buckner was the son of Confederate general Simon Bolivar Buckner and his wife Delia Hayes Claiborne. His father was Governor of Kentucky from 1887 to 1891, and was the Gold Democratic Party's candidate for U.S. Vice President in 1896. Buckner was raised