Morazán jumped in, slaughtered much of the bait, then found himself assaulted from all directions by Carrera's main force of about 5, 000 men.

Statues and busts of Francisco Morazán can be found in Chile, El Salvador, United States, Spain among others.

war: Francisco Morazán ( departamento )

During this offensive, the FMLN established operational control over large sections of Morazán and Chalatenango, which remained largely under guerrilla control throughout the rest of the civil war.

Morazán was a major stronghold of the guerrilla movement during the 1979-1992 civil war.

On September 1842, when discontent with Francisco Morazán had peaked and the country was on the brink of a war with Nicaragua, Pinto led a popular uprising to overthrow him.

In 1830 President Francisco Morazán offered him to be ambassador to France, and or the Vice presidency.

To us can shoot, but to General Morazán not ... that would be a crime to Central America ".

Among the most important figures of the federal era include the first democratically elected president in Honduras, Dionisio de Herrera, a lawyer, whose government, begun in 1824 established the first constitution, Gen. Francisco Morazán, Federal President 1830-1834 and 1835 – 1839, whose figure embodies the ideal American Unionist, and José Cecilio del Valle, editor of the Declaration of Independence signed in Guatemala on September 15, 1821 and Foreign Minister of Mexico in 1823.

General Francisco Morazán, a Honduran national hero, led unsuccessful efforts to maintain the federation.

* January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments.

* September 15 – Francisco Morazán, President of Central America ( b. 1792 )

Ximénez's manuscripts remained posthumously in the possession of the Dominican Order until General Francisco Morazán expelled the clerics from Guatemala in 1829 – 30 whereupon the Order's documents passed largely to the Universidad de San Carlos.

His Code of Reform and Prison Discipline was adopted by the government of the short-lived United States of Central America under liberal president Francisco Morazán.

Francisco Morazán (: ; October 3, 1792 – September 15, 1842 ) was born in Honduras and was the first Central American president and united Central America in different periods of time from 1827 to 1842 during turbulent times after its Independence from Spain.

Since then, and until his execution in 1842, Morazán dominated the political and military scene of Central America.

In the political arena, Francisco Morazán was recognized as a visionary and great thinker, as he attempted to transform Central America into one large and progressive nation.

Morazán also limited church power by making marriage secular and abolishing government-aided tithing.

But through his military skills, Morazán was able to keep a firm grip on power until 1837, when the Federal Republic became irrevocably fractured.

José Francisco Morazán Quezada was born on October 3, 1792, in Tegucigalpa ( then in the Captaincy General of Guatemala, now the capital of Honduras ) during the waning years of Spanish colonial rule to Eusebio Morazán Alemán and Guadalupe Quezada Borjas, both members of an upper-class Creole family dedicated to trade and agriculture.

His grandparents were Juan Bautista Morazán ( a Corsican immigrant ) and María Borjas Alvarenga.

Thirteen days after his birth Morazán was baptized at San Miguel Arcángel church, by father Juan Francisco Márquez.

Francisco Morazán was for the most part, a self-educated man.

In 1808 Francisco Morazán and his family moved to Morocelí where they worked the fields inherited by Mr Eusebio.

Francisco Morazán married María Josefa Lastiri in the Cathedral of Comayagua on December 30, 1825.

They had one daughter, Adela Morazán Lastiri, born in San Salvador in 1838.

Outside his marriage, Francisco Morazán fathered a son, Francisco Morazán Moncada, who was born on October 4, 1827 to Francisca Moncada, daughter of a well known Nicaraguan politician named Liberato Moncada.

Francisco Morazán Junior lived in the Morazán-Lastiri home and accompanied his father in Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Peru and finally in Costa Rica, where his father was executed.

After the death of his father, Francisco Morazán Moncada settled in Chinandega, Nicaragua where he devoted himself to farming.

Morazán also had an adoptive son named José Antonio Ruiz.

In March 2005, Lara declined selection for the West Indies team because of a dispute over his personal Cable & Wireless sponsorship deal, which clashed with the Cricket Board's main sponsor, Digicel.

Lara said he declined selection in a stand of solidarity, when these players were dropped because of their sponsorship deals.

Although he initially declined the part of Dr. David Banner in The Incredible Hulk because of its comic book origins, on reading Kenneth Johnson's script for the pilot episode, he was persuaded to change his mind ( and agreed to remain involved with the series for as long as Johnson was to be involved ).

Species which depended on photosynthesis declined or became extinct because of the reduction in solar energy reaching the Earth's surface due to atmospheric particles blocking the sunlight.

In 2004, Day received the Presidential Medal of Freedom but declined to attend the ceremony because of her fear of flying.

Tin working continued throughout Roman occupation although it appears that output declined because of new supplies brought in from the deposits discovered in Iberia ( Spain and Portugal ).

The nation's petroleum reserves declined sharply during the early 1980s because of exploration failures and rapidly increasing domestic consumption.

", as he became popularly known, was first elected to the House of Assembly in 1969 as the member for Vereeniging, and entered the cabinet in 1978. de Klerk had been offered a professorship of administrative law at Potchefstroom in 1972 but he declined the post because he was serving in Parliament.

Cukor had declined to direct the earlier film because it was too similar to his 1932 What Price Hollywood ?, but the opportunity to direct his first Technicolor film, first musical, and work with screenwriter Moss Hart and especially Garland appealed to him, and he accepted.

When Telemann declined the job, it was offered to Christoph Graupner, who also declined it — though chiefly because he could not secure a dismissal from his employer the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.

Cattle production grew steadily until 1980-81 but then declined sharply when profits fell because of high production costs.

When released in 1982, the Camira initially generated good sales, which later declined because buyers considered the 1. 6-litre engine underpowered, and the car's build and ride quality below-average.

Chiefs would not allow digging for gold because of fear of Portuguese theft, and the population declined.

Rival European powers began to make inroads in Asia as the Portuguese and Spanish trade in the Indian Ocean declined primarily because they had become hugely over-stretched financially due to the limitations on their investment capacity and contemporary naval technology.

In 1598 he declined the bishoprics of Ely and Salisbury, because of the conditions attached.

After China ceded Hong Kong to the British in 1842, Macau's position as a major regional trading center declined further still because larger ships were drawn to the deep water port of Victoria Harbor.

By the beginning of the 20th century, the Nez Perce had declined to about 1, 800 because of epidemics, conflicts with non-Indians, and other factors.

Although industry was becoming more visible in Paraguay in the 1980s, industry's share of GDP actually declined in the 1970s and 1980s because of more rapid growth in agriculture.

Tax revenues declined because republic and local governments withheld tax revenues from the central government under the growing spirit of regional autonomy.

The owner of the vase declined to bring a civil action against William Mulcahy because he did not want his family to suffer for " an act of folly or madness which they could not control ".

Previous uses were for the making of tetraethyllead and titanium metal ; because applications for these chemicals were discontinued, the production of sodium declined after 1970.

The industry declined in the mid-1980s because of the oil glut and because of a worldwide recession.

After the successful Russian Revolution ( 1917 ), the quality of spy fiction declined, because the Bolshevik enemy had won the Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 23 ); thus, the inter-war spy story usually concerns combating the Red Menace, which was then perceived as another " clash of civilizations ".