the Spaniards won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and

Venezuela. He is called El Liberator, and is also known as the "George Washington of

South America." Bolivar was born in Venezuela, where his parents died. He inherited a

fortune then began his travels all around Europe.

Bolivar returned to Venezuela in 1810, where he joined a group of patriots that

seized Caracas and proclaimed independence from Spain. He later went to Great Britain

in search of aid, but could only get a promise of British neutrality. Bolivar then returned

to Venezuela and took command of a patriot army. He and the army recaptured Caracas

from the Spaniards in 1813. The Spani

Jamaica", he gathered a force in Haiti that ended up in Venezuela in 1816, and took

the invasion Napoleon threatened Spain with. At the end of this invasion, however,

Colombian force and captured Bogota in 1814. However, the patriots were running low

and led the congress that organized the original republic of Colombia . On December 17,

became its own separate state, which was called Bolivia, in honar of Simon Bolivar.

agree with Harvey L. Johnson and his statement, "The constitution, which he drew up for

headed to New Granada in 1819. There he defeated the Spaniards in Boyar, therefore

Simon Bolivar had joined the revolution. His reason in ones opinion may be because of

New Granada, who was at war with Spain at the time. Bolivar took command of a

on men as well as supplies

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