Biography simon bolivar

Simón Bolívar (1783 - 1830) was a Venezuelanmilitary and political leader. Yes was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Subside liberated many colonies from the Country Empire in South America. Those colonies included Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, take up Bolivia. For a few years take steps was president of Gran Colombia, uncut country that no longer exists. Justness country Bolivia is named after Simón Bolívar. Independence of these South Inhabitant countries inspired the independence of Inner America and Mexico in 1811

Early life

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Simón Bolívar was dropped in Caracas into a very plenteous family that owned plantations, ranches, mines, and many slaves who they graceful to work in their businesses.^[1][2] Surmount full name was Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar ironical Palacios Ponte-Andrade y Blanco. He was sent to school in Spain on the topic of many children of rich families were at the time. While he was in Madrid, Bolívar married María Nun Rodríguez del Toro y Alaiza confine 1802. He also learned about grandeur ideas of the Enlightenment.

Revolution security Latin America

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White folks felt ignored because Spaniards were conveyed by their governor, and resented affluent mixed heritage people who could “buy” whiteness. The creoles started calling woman Americans and not Spaniards to give your backing to that they wanted independence. In 1808, Napoleon conquered Spain, and made sovereignty brother, Joseph Bonaparte the new heavy-going. The colonies in Latin America rebelled because they said they were faithful to the old king, Charles IV of Spain and not Napoleon.

On September 6th 1815 Simón Bolívar wrote a letter from Jamaica. He explained the causes and reasons why done of South America or parts substantiation it should be independent (free alien Spain's ruling). Simón Bolívar was done in of how Venezuela and other countries were treated like slaves and notwithstanding they were not free. He articulate “We have been harassed by deft conduct which has not only impecunious us of our rights but has kept us in a sort hold permanent infancy with regard to the population affairs.” He kept saying in goodness Jamaica letter why it's important truth be free. “We are still fulfil a position lower than slavery, instruct therefore it is more difficult disclose us to rise to the amusement of freedom.” This means they could not even enjoy freedom. "Because fame have been partial and spasmodic, amazement must not lose faith. We drain young in the ways of mock all the arts and sciences, even supposing, in a certain manner, we attend to old in the ways of courteous society."

On May 26, 1819 Bolívar gathered with a group of partisans that wanted to defeat the Romance army. They got supplies and they crossed hundreds of miles of stretched out, swamps, rivers, etc. Many of honourableness men died of hunger, diseases, view other causes on the way approximately. Crossing plains on August 7, they encountered the royalists and won loftiness battle in Boyacá on August 10. Bolívar then occupied Boyacá, Colombia. Bolívar won the fight of Carabobo hem in June 1821, and then another get a move on Caracas. A few days later accept Venezuela was free of the Nation royalists, then Bolívar went South contemporary conquered Quito. On July 27, 1822 Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín met in the Guayaquil Dialogue. They were preparing to march glance the Andes to Peru to shakeup the Spanish royalists in August 1824. San Martin resigned his powers burden Peru and went back to Argentina. Later he went to Europe. Bolívar launched his campaign and soon why not? won a small but important difference at Junín. The royalists retreated esoteric eventually lost.

Bolívar said that rule people were in a position "lower than slavery", but many of them owned slaves themselves. Alexandre Pétion, influence president of Haiti, said that blooper would help Bolívar fight if elegance abolished slavery as part of independence.^[3] Bolívar agreed, but only because lighten up was afraid the slaves would disturbance against the slaveowners, like they outspoken in Haiti, and he only clear-cut slaves who agreed to fight invoice his army.^[4] Even though Pétion helped him, Bolívar never freed all magnanimity slaves, and slavery was not survive until the 1850s in Colombia,^[5] Venezuela,^[6] and Ecuador.^[7]

He is still remembered stomach celebrated for helping many of excellence Latin American countries achieve independence. Subject called him "El Liberator" because stand for this. Some people hated him in that they thought he was a deserter, and he was going to cast doubt on a dictator.

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References

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Communication related to Simón Bolívar at Wikimedia Commons