Tomás Pinzón
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Biography of Tomás PinzónUptime BiographyCarlos Eugenio Thompson Pinzón was born in Bogotá, Colombia, the 29th November, 1972. Son of Eugenio Thompson and Ruth Pinzón, Carlos was raised primarly in Bogotá and graduated from High School in 1989 from La Salle School. Given his father job, Carlos had lived in Europe two times: in 1975-76 the Thompsons lived in Madrid, Spain, and Stockholm, Sweden. Later in 1979-80 they lived in Stockholm again. After Carlos graduated from High School and having participate in three International Mathematics Olympiads, the Thompsons moved again to Stockholm. Carlos came back to Bogotá in December 1992 and begun to study Electronic Engineering. In 2000 Carlos begun to work for an Multinational Company in the Telecommunication sector, graduated as Electronic Engineer and got married. By this time he was an occasional participant of Usenet forums and mailing lists, among them soc.history.what-if. In September 26th, 2001, Carlos went to sleep normally and waked up in September 23rd, 1810 near a swamp North from Santa Fe de Bogotá. After an expected disorientation, he realized where and when he was and that an insurrection has just happened in Santa Fe. Backup BiographyCarlos Eugenio Tomás Pinzón García was born the 29th November of 1781 in the Magdalena Valley, Governorship of Mariquita, Viceroyalty of New Granada. His father, Tomás Pinzón, was son of a free Negro man and a Mestizo woman. His mother, Ana García, was half White and half Mestizo. She died two years later of a fever. Carlos became complete orphan at 10 when his father was killed, however was soon adopted. His adopted father, Gösta Andersson, was a Swedish engineer that had come to France seduced by the Enlightment. He served in the military to the king of France but when the revolution started flew to Spain and then to the Americas. He married a Creole girl and they adopted Carlos. Disapointed by the way the Borbon administration treated the colonies, the new family went to the USA in 1795. Gösta then moved back to France with his family in 1799, when Carlos was 17. Carlos did not fit in the French society and went back to the USA in 1801, then to México and finally to Upper California, where he met a mulatto girl called María González. After witnessing the Cascadia revolution, Carlos married María in 1807. María died in 1809 when waiting their first children. After his lose, Carlos decided to come back to New Granada. In September 1810, Carlos was in his way to Santafé, capital of the Viceroyalty of New Granada when he heared about a Creole insurrection there. Biography since the arrivalCarlos finally arrived to Santafé, changing his name as Carlos Eugenio Tomás Pinzón García and found a job in the Astronomical Observatory, directed by naturalist Francisco José de Caldas, one of the conspirators. They soon realized that the insurrection was doomed to fail and Carlos escaped with Caldas and a few other Creoles, among them naturalists Jorge Tadeo Lozano. They went to the outskirts of Santiago de Cali, where they would have support from some wealthy Creole landowners but had to fly again when rumors were heard that the royalist have their track. Caldas escaped to Cascadia while Pinzón, taking the name of "Comandante" Tomás, went to the jungle covered mountains of Chocó and Antioquia where he has begun to train a small militia, receiving unofficial support from the Cascadian Government. In 1811, Pinzón and Lozano went to the United Stated of America to get support from US Entrepreneurs, including Danish-Norwegian adventurer Dr. Vegard Valberg. Back in the jungles of Antioquia and Chocó, Com. Tomás begun to train a two thousand men army and built an information network all over New Granada and Central America. On February 14th, 1812, after a short trip to Bloofields, Pinzón and his men assaulted the main cities of Chocó, Northwestern Antioquia and Eastern Panama and proclaimed the creation of the Free State of Darien. Given the grade of General and named as Commander in Chief of the Darien Army. Gen. Tomás Pinzón went to the Rebel Province of Cartagena and to the recently independent Republic of Venezuela for support. On April 8th, 1812, at Maracaibo, Venezuela, delegations from Cartagena, Venezuela and Darien signed the creation of the Colombian Pact, as a mean to co-ordinate efforts by the three Rebel provinces to fight the tyranny of Spain. After freeing Santa Marta in June, Gen. Pinzón, led a campaign to free Antioquia and Santa Fe, which he completed after the battle of Bogotá, the 9th August, 1812. |