Liberating Revolution (Venezuela)

Liberating Revolution
	Part of the Venezuelan civil wars and the Thousand Days' War
	; Some leaders of the revolution: General Matos seated in the center, Lino Duarte (right), Doctor Santos Dominici (left), Manuel Matos Jr. (standing), Epifanio Acosta (standing) photo donated by the family of Dr. Santos Dominici .
Date	19 December 1901 - 22 July 1903
Location	Central, western and eastern Venezuela
Result	Restorative victory; Consolidation of the Andean Hegemony; End of the period of the Venezuelan civil wars;
Belligerents
Restorative government	Liberal rebels
Commanders and leaders
Cipriano Castro; Juan Vicente Gómez;	Manuel Antonio Matos; Luciano Mendoza; Amábile Solagnie; Roberto Vargas Díaz; Ramón Guerra; Nicolás Rolando; Gregorio Segundo Riera; Juan Pablo Peñaloza; Epifanio Acosta López; José María Acosta López; Alejandro Dúcharne; Horacio Dúcharne; Pedro Dúcharne; Domingo Monagas; Antonio Fernández; Carlos Rangel Garbiras; Rafael Montilla; Eugenio Segundo Riera; Lino Duarte Level; Pablo Guzmán; Pedro Oderiz Gonzalez; Santos Dominici; Tomás Funes; John Boulton; César Vicentini; Zoilo Vidal; José María Ortega Martínez
Units involved
20.000	18.000-20.000
Casualties and losses
	Between 1899 and 1903, in two continuous civil wars, 372 military encounters were fought (210 in the Liberating Revolution), at a cost of 50,000 lives.

The Liberating Revolution was a civil war in Venezuela between 1901 and 1903 in which a coalition of regional caudillos led by the banker Manuel Antonio Matos tried to overthrow the government of Cipriano Castro.