Antonio Jose De Sucre, a South American soldier, born in Cumana, Venezuela, in 1793, assassinated near Pasto, Ecuador, in June, 1830. He joined the insurrectionary army in 1811, and was made brigadier general in 1819, and soon afterward commander of a division. In May, 1822, he won the victory of Pichincha, which was followed by the capitulation of Quito. In 1823 he led a Colombian army of 3,000 men to Lima, which he found in the hands of the royalists, and retired to Callao, where he was besieged several weeks till the successes of Gen. Santa Cruz compelled the royalists to evacuate Lima. In 1824 he succeeded Bolivar in command of the liberating army, and on Dec. 9 won the crowning victory of Ayacucho. (See Ayacucho.) In 1825 Bolivia was created into an independent republic, and on Aug. 11 the constitutional assembly appointed Sucre president. In an insurrection in 1827 he was attacked and severely wounded. In 1828 Gen. Gamarra forced him to quit Bolivia. He went to Colombia, was made commander of the Colombian army of the south, and conducted a successful series of operations, which terminated in the defeat and capitulation of the Peruvians under Gen. La Mar at Tarqui, Feb. 26, 1829. In 1830 he was a member of the constituent congress, and was returning to Quito from a session of that body when he was assassinated.