Daniel Florence O'Leary (; 14 February 1801 – 24 February 1854) was a military general and aide-de-camp under

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O'Leary was born in

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, Ireland; his father was Jeremiah O'Leary, a butter merchant. In 1817, Daniel O'Leary emigrated to South America. Unlike many of the Irish who fought for Simon Bolívar in his many campaigns to win South American independence, O'Leary had not served in the

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. In 1827 he married Soledad Soublette, the younger sister of General

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, with whom he had nine children. After Bolívar's death in 1830, O'Leary disobeyed orders to burn the general's personal documents. He spent much of the rest of his life organizing them, along with writing his own very extensive

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(spanning thirty-four volumes) of his time fighting in the revolutionary wars with Bolívar. He died in Bogotá, Colombia. He is buried in the National Pantheon of Venezuela since 1882. A bust and plaque honouring O'Leary were presented by the Venezuelan Government to the people of Cork and unveiled on 12 May 2010 by the Venezuelan Ambassador to Ireland,

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. In 1997, the Archive of the Liberator Simón Bolívar was inscribed by

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in the International Memory of the World Register and in the Regional Register for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2011.

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*Healy, Claire
"O'Leary, Daniel Florence (Florencio) (c.1802-1854)"
in ''Irish Migration Studies in Latin America'' 4:2 (March 2006), pp. 95-96.
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(This is the journal of the Society for Irish Latin American Studies) *Rodríguez, Moisés Enrique
"Under Three Flags The Diplomatic Career of Daniel Florence O'Leary"
in ''Irish Migration Studies in Latin America'' 7:1 (March 2009), pp. 85–92.
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*O'Leary, Peter

in Journal 2001 of th
Ballingeary Historical Society

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