Simon Bolivar

By: Jessica Schad

Latin America Independence
Movements
Simon Bolivar vowed to fight the
Spanish rule by the time he was in
his late 20s.
He was known as the The
Liberator.
He became one of the greatest
nationalists of his time.
Bolivar was born on July 24, 1783,
and he died on December 17, 1830.
He was born in Venezuela.
From the start
Early 1800s:
In 1810 Venezuela was ready to be
free from Spain.
On March 26, 1812 Spanish
royalists were ready to attack
however an earth quake leveled
Caracas, the largest city in
Venezuela.
Continued..
By 1812, Bolivar was
ready to join the fighting
in Venezuela.
He was sent to Spain to
harass them along the
Magdalena River.
Leaders in Venezuela gave
him permission to liberate
the western part of
Venezuela.
Major Events
In 1812 the first Venezuelan
Republic fell.
Bolivar quickly established the
second Venezuelan Republic not too
long after the fall of the first.
Bolivar marched into New Granada
(what is now present day Columbia),
and he recruited an army from
there. Simon Bolivars route through Spain.

At the battle of Boyaca on August 7,

Bolivar brought home the victory to
Involvement
Bolivar saved Venezuela from a
second fall in their Republic.
He gathered troops to fight the
Spaniards without training them.
As big as the Spanish army was
Bolivar would not let that stop him
from defeating them.
Bolivar arrested and executed his
own men to prove that he was
serious about winning this war.
 Outcome

To this day Venezuela celebrates two days of independence.

Those days are celebrated with parades and parties.

In 1874 the president of Venezuela announced that a church was

being turned into a national Pantheon for a house to store all the
bones and remains of the heroes that fought to free themselves from
Spain.
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