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Input (English): Context: Captain general (and its literal equivalent in several languages) is a high military rank of general officer grade, and a gubernatorial title., A general officer is an officer of high rank in the army, and in some nations' air forces or marines., The Orinoco is one of the longest rivers in South America at . Its drainage basin, sometimes called the Orinoquia, covers , with 76.3 percent of it in Venezuela and the remainder in Colombia. The Orinoco and its tributaries are the major transportation system for eastern and interior Venezuela and the llanos of Colombia.
The Orinoco is extremely diverse and hosts a wide variety of flora and fauna., The Spanish American wars of independence were the numerous wars against Spanish rule in Spanish America that took place during the early 19th century, after the French invasion of Spain during Europe's Napoleonic Wars. Although various regions of Spanish America objected to crown policies the restricted trade and privileged Spanish-born officials over American-born, "there was little interest in outright independence; indeed there was widespread support for the Spanish Central Junta formed to lead the resistance against the French." These conflicts started in 1809 with short-lived governing juntas established in Chuquisaca and Quito opposing the composition of the Supreme Central Junta of Seville. When the Central Junta fell to the French invasion, in 1810, numerous new juntas appeared across the Spanish domains in the Americas. The conflicts among these colonies and with Spain eventually resulted in a chain of newly independent countries stretching from Argentina and Chile in the south to Mexico in the north in the first third of the 19th century. Cuba and Puerto Rico remained under Spanish rule until the SpanishAmerican War in 1898., Miguel de la Torre y Pando , conde de Torrepando ( 13 December 1786 , in Bernales -- 1843 , in Madrid ) was a Spanish General , Governor and Captain General , who served in Spain , Venezuela , Colombia and Puerto Rico during the Spanish American wars of independence and after . At the age of fourteen he joined the Spanish Army as a soldier during the War of the Second Coalition and quickly distinguished himself and four years later he joined the Guardia de Corps . He fought well during the Spanish War of Independence , reaching the level of colonel by 1814 . The following year he was assigned to the military expedition to South America led by Pablo Morillo , and participated in the Spanish reconquest of New Granada . Promoted to brigadier after New Granada was subdued , La Torre led a royalist army into the Colombian and Venezuelan llanos . There he unsuccessfully defended Angostura against Manuel Piar in April 1817 , and led the loyalist forces down the Orinoco River as they fought their way to the Atlantic Ocean . For the next three years he continued to serve in the Spanish army of Venezuela . During this period he married a Criolla , María de la Concepción Vegas y Rodríguez del Toro , a member of the powerful Rodríguez del Toro family and cousin once removed to Bolívar 's late wife , Maria Teresa Rodríguez del Toro y Alayza , and fourth cousin to Bolívar himself . After the restoration of the Spanish Constitution of 1812 in 1820 , the government appointed him governor ( jefe político superior ) and captain - general of Venezuela , a post he held until 1822 . He participated in the negotiations between Bolívar and Morillo and the later meeting in Santa Ana , where the two signed a six - month truce and a treaty regularizing the rules of engagement . After Morillo resigned and left Venezuela at the end of 1820 , La Torre became the head of the royalist army , in addition to his other duties . As such he oversaw the loss suffered by royalist forces at the Battle of Carabobo on 24 June 1821 , which effectively ended Spanish control of Venezuela . The following year he was replaced in his offices by Francisco Tomás Morales ., Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a federal republic located on the northern coast of South America. It is bordered by Colombia on the west, Brazil on the south, Guyana on the east, and the islands of Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east. Venezuela's territory covers around with an estimated population . Venezuela is considered a state with extremely high biodiversity (currently ranks 7th in the world's list of nations with the most number of species), with habitats ranging from the Andes Mountains in the west to the Amazon Basin rain-forest in the south, via extensive "llanos" plains and Caribbean coast in the center and the Orinoco River Delta in the east., The Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions, primarily led and financed by the United Kingdom. The wars resulted from the unresolved disputes associated with the French Revolution and the Revolutionary Wars, which had raged on for years before concluding with the Treaty of Amiens in 1802. The resumption of hostilities the following year paved the way for more than a decade of constant warfare often categorized into five conflicts: the War of the Third Coalition (1805), the War of the Fourth Coalition (1806-7), the War of the Fifth Coalition (1809), the War of the Sixth Coalition (1813), and the War of the Seventh Coalition (1815). The Napoleonic Wars had profound consequences for global and European history, leading to the spread of nationalism and liberalism, the rise of the British Empire as the world's premier power, the independence movements in Latin America and the collapse of the Spanish Empire, the fundamental reorganization of German and Italian territories into larger states, and the establishment of radically new methods in warfare. , Subject: miguel de la torre, Relation: military_rank, Options: (A) captain (B) captain general (C) general (D) general officer (E) major
Output (English): general officer