Simon Bolivar 'El Liberator'

Francis Loraine Petre

Braunfell Books 

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Renowned military Historian F. Lorraine Petre takes on the legacy of the Simon Bolivar, the liberator of the Hispano-American territories from misrule of the Spanish Empire.Simon Jose Antonio de la Santisima Trinidad Bolivar y Palacios[c] (24 July 1783 - 17 December 1830) was a Venezuelan military and political leader who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire. He is known colloquially as El Libertador, or the Liberator of America.Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas in the Captaincy General of Venezuela into a wealthy criollo family...When the Spanish authority in the Americas weakened due to Napoleon's Peninsular War, Bolivar became a zealous combatant and politician in the Spanish American wars of independence.Bolivar began his military career in 1810 as a militia officer in the Venezuelan War of Independence, fighting Royalist forces for the first and second Venezuelan republics and the United Provinces of New Granada. After Spanish forces subdued New Granada in 1815, Bolivar was forced into exile on Jamaica. After befriending Haitian revolutionary leader Alexandre Petion and promising to abolish slavery in South America, Bolivar received military support from Haiti. Returning to Venezuela, he established a third republic in 1817 and then crossed the Andes to liberate New Granada in 1819. Bolivar and his allies defeated the Spanish in New Granada in 1819, Venezuela and Panama in 1821, Ecuador in 1822, Peru in 1824, and Bolivia in 1825. Venezuela, New Granada, Ecuador, and Panama were merged into the Republic of Colombia (Gran Colombia), with Bolivar as president there and in Peru and Bolivia.

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