By: Jessica Schad

 Simon Bolivar vowed to fight the

Spanish rule by the time he was in
his late 20’s.
 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.
Early 1800’s:
 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.
 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 Bolivar’s route through Spain.
 At the battle of Boyaca on August
7, Bolivar brought home the victory
to Venezuela.
 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.
 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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Jose De San Martin. Web. 4 Apr. 2017.
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