I'm not going to tell you about a hero of independence, but rather about a great heroine.

MARÍA LUISA CÁCERES DÍAZ DE ARISMENDI, was born in Caracas, September 25, 1799 and died in Caracas, June 2, 1866, was one of the most important female characters in Venezuelan history and is the most important heroine of the independence of Venezuela .
On September 24, 1815, Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi, who was pregnant, is taken as a hostage to put pressure on her husband and is locked up in the house of the Amnes family, to be later transferred to a dungeon in Santa Rosa Castle in the Assumption .
On January 26, 1816, Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi gives birth, but the girl dies due to the conditions of childbirth and the dungeon in which she was. Then he is ordered to move to the fortress of Pampatar where he stays for a few days, then he is transferred to the prison of La Guaíra, and on March 22, 1816, to the Convent of the Immaculate Conception in Caracas.
Unable to return to Venezuela, Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi arrives on January 17, 1817 in Cádiz, is presented to the Captain General of Andalusia, who protests the treatment he received and gives the category of confined, assigning a pension of 10 reais in fleece daily.
Luisa refused to sign a document where she was asked to express her loyalty to the King of Spain and to deny the patriotic affiliation of her husband, to which she replied "I am unable to dishonor my husband with the signature that is requested of me. Your duty is to serve your country and set it free. Sir, I can not advise a crime on Arismendi. I am his wife and I know my duty. "
In March of 1818 the lieutenant Francisco Carabaño and the English Mr. Tottem help her to escape, and the 3 of May of 1818 arrives at the United States where it knows the family of the patriotic admiral Lino Clemente. Colonel Luis Rieux, sent by Arismendi, visits Luisa and moves her to Margarita, arriving on July 26, 1818.
On September 19, 1819, the Council of the Indies issued a resolution granting him absolute freedom and power to establish his residence wherever he wished.