Military Career
Right after the events of July 10, 1810, “el Grito de Independencia”, Urdaneta decides to join the revolutionary army. He is enlisted as lieutenant of the battalion “Patriotas de Cundinamarca”.
After the establishment of a Junta in Caracas, Urdaneta joined the army in the fight against royalist. After years of service to the patriotic cause, he became one of Simón Bolívar's closest collaborators and was promoted to General of the republican army in 1821.
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