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	Francisco de Miranda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Daniel Florencio O'Leary, aide-de-camp to Simón Bolívar, said of Miranda's death: "Miranda was a man of the eighteenth century whose genius lay in raising the consciousness and confidence of his fellow Americans.
		Born and raised in Caracas, Miranda was the son of a wealthy merchant from the Canary Islands, a region of Spain.
		Miranda envisioned an independent empire consisting of all the territories which had been under Spanish and Portuguese rule, stretching from the Mississippi River to Cape Horn.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francisco_de_Miranda (683 words)

	Articles: Miranda, Francisco de - Historical Text Archive
		Daniel Florencio O'Leary, who was Bolívar's trusted aid de camp, said after the death of Miranda that "Miranda was a man of the eighteenth century whose genius lay in raising the consciousness and confidence of his fellow Americans.
		Miranda later tried to convince the patriot leaders of the Venezuelan Congress to form a new centralized government and allow him to be the new leader, but this did not work.
		Francisco de Miranda was a brilliant man who tried his hardest to make others in the world see and believe what he did.
	www.historicaltextarchive.com /sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=636 (1688 words)

	H-Net Review: Lance R. Blyth on The Wars of Independence in Spanish America
		Archer juxtaposes two contemporary reports on Bolivar, one by Daniel Florencio O'Leary, Bolivar's Irish-born aide-de-camp who supported Bolivar, and the other by H.L.V. Ducoudray Holstein, a self-appointed general from Germany with French military experience who bitterly criticized Bolivar noting his opponents' ineptness provided most of Bolivar's successes.
		The royalist response to this situation is found in Archer's translation of Felix Calleja's 1811 regulations that militarized Mexico and of a March 1818 report by Viceroy Juan Ruiz de Apodaca which optimistically overemphasized the effects of pacification on Mexico's regions and amnesty programs for insurgents, since such regions and fighters shifted back and forth.
		In the second document, Jose de Cevallos, the captain general of Caracas in colonial Venezuela, did not agree with such views and emphasized the need to gain and maintain the support of the
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=29342976815529 (1688 words)

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