Now customize the name of a clipboard to store your clips. Bolivar landed in venezuela and fulfilled his promise to petion to free spanish americas slaves on 2 june 1816. It shows that even in peru, bolivars main concern was to prevent the racial war and social disintegration that allegedly slaves and free afrodescended people. Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. Simon bolivar 1921 the liberator patriot, warrior, statesmanfather of five nations by guillermo a. And the nations to the south of us are also building their. Simon boliva anr d the age of revolution 1 bolivar spok wite greah eloquenct an precisiode to thn congrese of s angostura. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. It was there that h e described th e spanis americah n revolutio n as he saw it. Simon bolivar, a member of the venezuelan planter class and a leading figure in the.
Hes been called spanish americas answer to george washington and thomas jefferson combined, but simon bolivar was both and yet. Feb 01, 2006 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Winning independence for six nations earns you the title the liberator. Welcome to the world of free plain vanilla electronic texts ebooks readable by both humans and by computers, since 1971.
Simon bolivar has found the perfect biographer in marie arana, a literary journalist, brilliant. Because of his great work, he was able to liberate six central and south american countries including bolivia, panama, colombia, ecuador, peru and venezuela. A republica governmentn tha, its wha venezuelt hada has, an, d shoul haved. In this brainpop movie, tim and moby describe the exploits of simon bolivar, one of the. Sherwell introduction in the history of peoples, the veneration of national heroes has been one. Project gutenberg offers 60,679 free ebooks to download. Clipping is a handy way to collect important slides you want to go back to later. The liberator the george washington of south america. He is a very important figure in south american political history, and served as. Simon bolivar was a prominent military leader of venezuela who is best known for spearheading a massive liberation movement uniting six nations against the spanish. In 1819, he became president of venezuela and of what is today colombia, ecuador, and panama, and he gave the speech on the constitution of venezuela that follows. He joined freemasonry in cadiz, spain, and received the scottish rite degrees in paris and was knghted in a commandery of knights templar in france in 1807. Hailed as a revolutionary and known for his political acumen, simon bolivar is one of the most important historical figures of all times. Library of latin america includes bibliographical references.
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