José Antonio Figueroa

José Antonio Figueroa was a Dominican soldier who was a veteran of the Dominican War of Independence. He rejected the annexation and with the decision to fight to avoid it, he came with Francisco del Rosario Sánchez in the expedition of June 1861. Captured along with the hero, he suffered the same fate as his and paid with his martyrdom and his blood for the national cause on July 4, 1861, in San Juan de la Maguana. On the same date and for the same cause, the also martyrs Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, Juan Erazo, Baltasar Belén, Félix Mota, Benigno del Castillo, shared the fate of Figueroa.