Tomás Pimentel

Tomas Pimentel was a Dominican politician and prosecutor. As a native of the South, and a follower of Pedro Santana, he was a supporter of the annexation to Spain, until he committed to serving as prosecutor in the trial of July 1861, in San Juan, in which Francisco del Rosario Sánchez and his companions were sentenced to death. He was a colonel of the Reserves under the annexationist regime. When the Dominican Restoration War spread to the South, Tomás Pimentel changed sides, instead fighting for with the national cause and began to act alongside restoration chiefs such as Pedro Florentino, Francisco Moreno, Aniceto Martínez and others of similar category. He acted in the capture of Neyba under the orders of General Ángel Félix.