Daniel Florencio O'Leary

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Daniel Florence O'Leary (c.1802-1854) was a military general and aide-de-camp under Simón Bolívar. He was born in County Cork in Ireland. Unlike many of the Irish that fought for Bolívar in the South American wars of independence, O'Leary had not served in the Napoleonic Wars.

After Bolívar's death, O'Leary disobeyed orders to burn the general's personal papers. He spent much of the rest of his life organizing those papers along with writing his very extensive memoirs (spanning thirty-four volumes) of his time fighting in the wars of revolution with Bolívar.