3. •His father died when he was three years old and his mother died six years later
•Born July 24, 1783
•Died December 17, 1830
•He led revolutions against Spanish rule
•Originally from Caracas, New Granda
•Bolivar was called el liberator (the liberator)
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4. •he was accused of being involved in a conspiracy against the Spanish
government
•then he joined the military academy of the Milicias de Veraguas
• Through these years of military training, he developed his fervent passion for
armaments and military strategy
•he later would employ on the battlefields of the wars of independence
• Bolívar witnessed the coronation of Napoleon in Notre Dame, and left a
profound impression upon him.
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5. •Bolivar freed six countries
•His first political statement was the El Manifiesto de Cartagena
•he attributed the fall of the First Republic to the lack of strong government
•He ruled Bolivia, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela
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6. Bolivar’s basic aim was liberty, he described it as "the only object worth
the sacrifice of man's life”. For Bolivar liberty did not simply mean
freedom from the absolutist state of the eighteenth century, as it did
for the Enlightenment, but freedom from a colonial power, to be
followed by true independence under a liberal constitution. He wanted
equality (legal equality). Also he believed that governments should be
responsible to the people.
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