Packet 9: Bonus 16

This man was dubbed the “First Universal Venezuelan” after he designed the first Venezuelan flag on the ship Leander. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Venezuelan revolutionary who died in a Spanish prison in Cadiz. This man’s early South American independence campaigns earned him the title “The Precursor.”
ANSWER: Francisco de Miranda
[10e] Miranda was dubbed “the Precursor” as a reference to this creator of Gran Colombia who was nicknamed “The Liberator.”
ANSWER: Simon Bolívar
[10m] Francisco de Miranda lost support after many devout Catholics interpreted the fact that one of these events was on Maundy Thursday as a sign. The Marquis of Pombal gave a command to “bury the dead and heal the living” after one of these events hit Lisbon in 1755.
ANSWER: earthquake [accept 1812 Caracas earthquake or 1755 Lisbon earthquake or Great Lisbon earthquake]
<History - World, Vikram Narasimhan> | VAULT II Packet 09

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