Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions

Simon Bolivar was born in the year of 1783, acc0mplished many things in his life and died in the year of 1830. His accomplishments were very liberating for other countries. He gained independence for Bolivia, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. He's also known as the liberater and the "George Washington of South America".

Bolivar was born in venezuela in a town called Caracas as a young man he traveled in Europe. He became a patriot of his town to gain independence from Spain. Afterwards, he took command of the patriot army of Caracas and recaptured it in 1813 from Spain. Spain forced Simon to go back from Venezuela and sent Colombia who was in war with Spain at the time, he took command of their force and recaptured Bogota in 1814.

During 1816, he gathered a force from Haiti that landed in Venezuela. He then became a dictator in Angostura. He defeated Spain during 1819, and liberated the territory of colombia. Then he went back to Angostura and became its first president of the original public of Colombia. He had crushed the spanish army on 1821, he also became dictator of Peru and that army had won over the spaniards in 1824. Upper peru had become a seperate state, and it was named Bolivia in his honor.

Simon Bolivar was a man of many accomplishments and victories through his times. He liberated many unindependent countries that spain had been ruling at the time. Peru even named another state after his honor for South America.