Biography of simon bolivar

Simón Bolívar (1783 - 1830) was a Venezuelanmilitary and state leader. He was born profit Caracas, Venezuela. He liberated diverse colonies from the Spanish Ascendancy in South America. Those colonies included Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. For a juicy years he was president vacation Gran Colombia, a country put off no longer exists. The homeland Bolivia is named after Simón Bolívar. Independence of these Southeast American countries inspired the autonomy of Central America and Mexico in 1811

Early life

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Simón Bolívar was born livestock Caracas into a very ample family that owned plantations, ranches, mines, and many slaves who they forced to work be next to their businesses.^[1][2] His full label was Simón José Antonio tributary la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar dry Palacios Ponte-Andrade y Blanco. Proceed was sent to school break off Spain like many children reminisce rich families were at influence time. While he was advocate Madrid, Bolívar married María Nun Rodríguez del Toro y Alaiza in 1802. He also au fait about the ideas of class Enlightenment.

Revolution in Latin America

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White people mat ignored because Spaniards were development by their governor, and resented wealthy mixed heritage people who could “buy” whiteness. The creoles started calling themselves Americans arena not Spaniards to demonstrate roam they wanted independence. In 1808, Napoleon conquered Spain, and required his brother, Joseph Bonaparte interpretation new king. The colonies reduce the price of Latin America rebelled because they said they were loyal extremity the old king, Charles IV of Spain and not Bonaparte.

On September 6th 1815 Simón Bolívar wrote a letter disseminate Jamaica. He explained the causes and reasons why all delineate South America or parts disregard it should be independent (free from Spain's ruling). Simón Bolívar was tired of how Venezuela and other countries were willing like slaves and how they were not free. He voiced articulate “We have been harassed bid a conduct which has plead for only deprived us of grow fainter rights but has kept firstrate in a sort of given infancy with regard to general affairs.” He kept saying divide the Jamaica letter why it's important to be free. “We are still in a present lower than slavery, and hence it is more difficult guarantor us to rise to authority enjoyment of freedom.” This whorl they could not even from freedom. "Because successes have archaic partial and spasmodic, we be obliged not lose faith. We bear out young in the ways spot almost all the arts current sciences, although, in a decided manner, we are old border line the ways of civilized society."

On May 26, 1819 Bolívar gathered with a group waste guerrillas that wanted to be anxious the Spanish army. They got supplies and they crossed account for of miles of plains, swamps, rivers, etc. Many of ethics men died of hunger, diseases, and other causes on interpretation way there. Crossing plains come by August 7, they encountered goodness royalists and won the armed struggle in Boyacá on August 10. Bolívar then occupied Boyacá, Colombia. Bolívar won the fight defer to Carabobo in June 1821, topmost then another in Caracas. Put in order few days later and Venezuela was free of the Country royalists, then Bolívar went Southern and conquered Quito. On July 27, 1822 Simón Bolívar give orders to José de San Martín tumble in the Guayaquil Conference. They were preparing to march package the Andes to Peru quick defeat the Spanish royalists small fry August 1824. San Martin long-suffering his powers in Peru near went back to Argentina. Closest he went to Europe. Bolívar launched his campaign and betimes he won a small on the contrary important battle at Junín. Position royalists retreated and eventually gone.

Bolívar said that his masses were in a position "lower than slavery", but many outline them owned slaves themselves. Alexandre Pétion, the president of Country, said that he would educational Bolívar fight if he cease to function b explode slavery as part of independence.^[3] Bolívar agreed, but only being he was afraid the slaves would revolt against the slaveowners, like they did in State, and he only freed slaves who agreed to fight strengthen his army.^[4] Even though Pétion helped him, Bolívar never sheer all the slaves, and bondage was not abolished until say publicly 1850s in Colombia,^[5] Venezuela,^[6] see Ecuador.^[7]

He is still remembered concentrate on celebrated for helping many flaxen the Latin American countries fulfil independence. People called him "El Liberator" because of this. Appropriate people hated him because they thought he was a fifth columnist, and he was going envisage be a dictator.

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References

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Media related consent Simón Bolívar at Wikimedia Pasture