María Trinidad Sánchez, Mother Founder (16 May 1794,

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- 27 February 1846, Santo Domingo) was a Dominican freedom fighter and a heroine of the

Dominican War of Independence The Dominican War of Independence made the Dominican Republic a sovereign state on February 27, 1844. Before the war, the island of Hispaniola had been united for 22 years when the newly independent nation, previously known as the Captaincy Gene ...

. She participated on the rebel side as a courier. Together with Concepción Bona, Isabel Sosa and María de Jesús Pina, she took part in designing the Dominican flag. She was executed after having refused to betray her collaborators in exchange for her life. The María Trinidad Sánchez Province is named after her. Her remains rest in the

National Pantheon of the Dominican Republic The National Pantheon was built from 1714 to 1746 by the Spaniard Geronimo Quezada y Garçon and was originally a Jesuit church. The structure was constructed in the neoclassic-renaissance style. Today, the structure stands as a national symbo ...

in Santo Domingo.

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Biografía y valoración
en ''Red Poder Comunitario''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Sánchez, María Trinidad 1794 births 1846 deaths Flag designers 19th-century Dominican Republic people 19th-century rebels Women in 19th-century warfare People of the Dominican War of Independence Women in the Dominican War of Independence 19th-century executions by Spain Dominican Republic revolutionaries Dominican Republic independence activists Afro-Dominican (Dominican Republic)

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