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He is known colloquially as El Libertador, or the Liberator of America. Simón Bolívar was born in Caracas in the Captaincy General of Venezuela into a wealthy family of American-born Spaniards but lost both parents as a child. Bolívar was educated abroad and lived in Spain, as was common for men of upper-class families in his day.
Equestrian statue of Simón Bolívar. The military and political career of Simón Bolívar (July 24, 1783 – December 17, 1830), which included both formal service in the armies of various revolutionary regimes and actions organized by himself or in collaboration with other exile patriot leaders during the years from 1811 to 1830, was an important element in the success of the independence ...
In the same way, the congress shall determine "the arms and flag of Colombia". The colors will be the Venezuelan ones, "being most known". On January 15, 1820, the congress "shall adjourn"; then new elections to the congress can take place. The congress shall be replaced by a six-member committee and a president.
Bolivar started acting on his own, leaving La Guaira on a Spanish ship. He briefly stayed in Curaçao before finally arriving in Cartagena. He accepted a commission in the army of the United Provinces of New Granada (Colombia), which later granted him permission to lead a force to free Venezuela, in what became known as the Admirable Campaign.
1. Map of the Bolívar's campaign to liberate New Granada; 2.Battle of Boyacá's day; 3. Disposition of troops. General Simon Bolivar's Patriot Army surprised the Spanish by strategically crossing the Andes Mountain Range through the Paramo de Pisba into the Boyacá region in early July of 1819, however the march had weakened his army.
In light of these events, on May 23, in the town of Mantecal Bolivar gathered all of his officers and presented his plan for the invasion of New Granada, with them agreeing to the plan. Prior to setting out for New Granada, Bolivar wrote a letter to his vice president Francisco Antonio Zea informing him of the start of the campaign and its ...
Ten of Obama's greatest accomplishments. When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, his campaign slogan was "Change we can believe in." He ran on the platform that called for the country to come ...
Painting by Martín Tovar y Tovar.. The Royalists occupied the road leading from Valencia to Puerto Cabello.As Bolívar's force of 6,500 or 8,000 (which included 340 [4] or 350 [5] men of the British Rangers battalion, the great majority of them of Anglophone origin [6] of the so-called "British Legions") approached the Royalist position, Bolívar divided his force and sent half on a flanking ...