An English raider named Aymas Preston sacked this city during its early days as a wheat export powerhouse.
An English raider named Aymas Preston sacked this city during its early days as a wheat export powerhouse. Governor Juan de Pimentel sketched out the first map of this city, whose elites were studied in the travel journals of Frenchman Francois Depons. In the 18th century, trade from this New World city was monopolized by the Basques who ran its namesake Gipuzkoan Company, which was opposed by LeÃ³n's rebellion. Starting in 1777, it administered its surrounding region as a "Captaincy General" which fell apart after the appointment of Vicente de EmparÃ¡n by Emperor Joseph was not universally recognized. This city took its colonial-era exports to the nearby port of La Guaira. (*) A massive 1812 earthquake helped loyalist Domingo de Monteverde defeat a breakaway republic headquartered in this city, which was later the capital from which JosÃ© Antonio Paez ruled. An army that marched northeast to here from CÃºcuta issued the Decree of War to the Death. For 10 points, name this city reached at the end of SimÃ³n BolÃ­var's Admirable Campaign in 1813, BolÃ­var's childhood home.
An English raider named Aymas Preston sacked this city during its early days as a wheat export powerhouse.
Caracas, Venezuela