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	Simon Bolivar
		Bolivar had an army of 9,000 well-armed, equipped, and provisioned troops, double the Spanish force in the country; yet the patriot forces were so scattered that in the campaign that followed they were beaten in detail a dozen times, and by the end of May 1818, were driven from the provinces north of the Orinoco.
		Bolivar retired to Angostura, where he fell in with Santander, a citizen of New Granada, who informed him that the people of that colony were prepared for a general revolt, and begged for assistance in invading the country.
		Bolivar confided affairs in Peru to a council nominated by himself, with Santa Cruz for its chief, and hastened to the scene of the disturbances, leaving Lima in September and reaching Bogota on 14 November 1826.
	www.famousamericans.net /simonbolivar (8941 words)

	Simon Bolivar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Simon Bolivar, the Liberator, organized and led military forces, never numbering more than then thousand, to free the northern portion of South America from Spanish rule in the early nineteenth century.
		On December 17, 1819, Bolivar proclaimed the establishment of the Republic of Colombia, consisting of New Grenada and Venezuela, with himself president.
		Bolivar was not as successful in the role of government leader as he was in the role of a general leading revolutionaries.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /military/bolivar.html (967 words)

	History of Simon Bolivar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Simon Bolivar was one of South America's greatest generals.
		Bolivar was born in July 24, 1783, at Caracas, Venezuela.
		Bolivar crushed the Spanish army at Carabobo in Venezuela on June 24, 1821.
	www.bolivarmo.com /history.htm (325 words)

	The sword of Simón Bolivar
		Simon Bolivar Palacios was born in Caracas on July 24, 1783.
		Bolivar lost respect for Napoleon, whom he considered to be a traitor to the republican ideas.
		Bolivar on June 3, 1811, he gave his speech in favor of the American independence to the Patriotic Society being two days later declared as day of the Venezuelan Independence.
	www.aceros-de-hispania.com /simon-bolivar-sword.htm (980 words)

	Simon Bolivar: Liberator of Latin America by Scott S. Smith
		Bolivar was appalled at what he felt was a betrayal of the principles of the Revolution, yet he took note of the ability of one man to change the course of history.
		Bolivar was put in charge of the most important republican port, Puerto Cabello, where a large number of prisoners were kept at the main fort, as well as a large stockpile of arms and artillery (which played little role by either side in South America's fight for freedom).
		Bolivar knew that the Andes were considered impassable during winter (in the southern hemisphere) and that the Spanish guarded the frontier of New Granada on the other side very lightly.
	www.militaryheritage.com /bolivar.htm (4878 words)

	History of Bolivar Peninsula and Life of Simon Bolivar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bolivar Peninsula was founded in 1820 and is named for Simon Bolivar, patriot, statesman and liberator of five South American Republics.
		Bolivar's life was dedicated to the independence of the then Spanish colonies, and the dream of Latin American unity.
		Simon Bolivar was the first President of Bolivia, which became independent of Spain in 1824, and gave his name to the country.
	www.crystalbeach.com /history.htm (457 words)

	Simón Bolívar
		Simon Bolivar’s birth, at the end of the 18th century, coincides with the end of the ancien régime in Spain, when the Illustration and its intellectuals tried, with the help of an uncertain support by a "foreign" king, Charles III, to modernize the country and his empire.
		Bolivar was the fourth son of the colonel Juan Vicente Bolivar Ponte and Mrs María de la Concepción Palacios Blanco.
		Bolivar managed to flee to Cartagenas de Indias and on December 15th, 1812, he published some statements with the main ideas that would lead his actions in the following years: unity in command to fight till victory is achieved; and the union of every Spanish-American countries to obtain and consolidate the Independence and Freedom.
	www.guiabizkaia.com /museos/Bolibar/biografia/bolivar_english.htm (1804 words)

	Simon Bolivar
		This junta gave Bolivar the rank of lieutenant colonel and he was part of the group that took Caracas from the Spanish and declared the First Republic of Venezuela on July 5, 1811.
		Bolivar favored a government with a strong executive and pushed for this at the congress.
		Bolivar and his generals led an aggressive campaign against these parties and by 1822 the whole of Gran Colombia was liberated.
	www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b4bolivarsimon.htm (1085 words)

	Simon Bolivar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Simon Bolivar was greatly influenced by the older man's grasp of culture and history, and of the philosophy of the "rights of man".
		Bolivar became a member of Lodge Lautro in Cadiz in 1803, together with two other great South American patriots, José de San Martin, later the liberator of Argentina, and Bernardo O'Higgins, later the national hero of Chile.
		Bolivar dreamed of a great federation of the South American continent, that would be the counterpart of the United States.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /Biography/Simon_Bolivar.htm (1718 words)

	Simon Bolivar
		Bolivar raised a small army in New Granada (now Colombia) and defeated the Spanish at Boyaca in 1819 and was subsequently made president of the new republic of Colombia with almost supreme power.
		Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) was laid down on 17 April 1963 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, Va.; launched on 22 August 1964; sponsored by Mrs.
		Simon Bolivar completed her third deterrent patrol in January 1967, operating as a unit of Submarine Squadron (SubRon) 18.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s13/simon_bolivar.htm (463 words)

	Events in the Life of Simon Bolivar
		Bolivar flees to Cartagena, where he writes the Manifesto of Cartagena, New Granada (modern Colombia), calling for the destruction of Spanish forces in Venezuela.
		Eleven months later, Bolivar's army is defeated by a royalist force led by Jose Thomas Boves, who rides at the head of the cavalry composed of native cowboys, known as llaneros.
		September 1823 Bolivar arrives in Lima and begins preparations to assault the Spanish positions in the mountains to the east.
	www.simon-bolivar.org /bolivar/events_in_the_live.html (1008 words)

	Simon Bolivar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Simon Bolivar was born on July 24, 1783 in Caracas, Venezuela.
		Simon fought in a revolt against Spain in Venezuela (1810) under the command of Francisco de Miranda.
		In 1819 Bolivar defeated the Spaniards in Boyaca, which is located across the Andes Mountains in present day Columbia.
	www.auburn.edu /~jfdrake/teachers/gould/bolivar.html (223 words)

	Simón Bolívar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In an attempt to keep the republic together as a single entity, Bolívar called for a constitutional convention at during April 1828.
		Bolivar had wanted to implement in Gran Colombia some or all of the elements of the Bolivian constitution he had written (which included a lifetime presidency with the ability to select a successor, though this was theoretically held in check by an intricate system of balances).
		This move was considered controversial and was one of the reasons why the deliberations met with strong opposition.
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Sim%F3n_Bol%EDvar (1037 words)

	O R Tambo - 1983
		For it is not possible that Simon Bolivar could have stood aside while the uprooted Palestinian nation bled to death in the ghettos of Beirut.
		Writing from Jamaica, Simon Bolivar said he had reason to hope that the civilised nations would hasten to his aid in order that he might achieve that which must prove to be advantageous to both hemispheres.
		Simon Bolivar once observed that nineteenth century Latin America had "rejected the atrocities (committed by the Spanish invaders three centuries before) as mythical, because they appear to be beyond the human capacity for evil." (The Jamaica Letter).
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/mandela/awards/or83-7.html (2679 words)

	History of Venezuela - Second Part (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Among the officers who had to leave the country when Monteverde took over was Simon Bolivar, a young Venezuelan aristocrat born in Caracas on July 24th 1783 who later would become "Bolivar El Libertador" and who under the guidance of his tutor Simon Rodriguez had been exposed to the most revolutionary contemporary ideas.
		Bolivar toured the European courts, where he consolidated his political paradigm and swore to commit his life to free his country from the Spanish bondage.
		By the year 1830, with Bolivar and Sucre deaths, Venezuela withdrawal from the "Gran Colombia", and the new constitution, the independence period came to an end.
	www.venezuelatuya.com /historia/eng2.htm (815 words)

	Simon Bolivar 1783-1830 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas in 1783; he was the son of a very wealthy and known family of Caracas.
		Simon Bolivar was the first President of Venezuela.
		Bolivar was also an excellent writer and speaker.
	www.solinger.com /venezuela/SimonBolivar (276 words)

	Biography of Simon Bolivar
		The successor of Rodríguez like teacher of Bolivar, Andres Bello (later a great poet), hardly was a little older than his pupil, but he never had on him the influence that reached the first teacher and his lessons lasted just a year.
		Bolivar was 15 years old when, with a lot of money and many letters of recommendation, he abandoned for first time his country, in order to become a man of world, further of the seas.
		With passion Bolivar welcomed this happiness the first that he could reach, and yearned to part immediately to live with that girl, a romantic idyl in the earth of his senior.
	www.unet.edu.ve /~lsb/ebiograf.htm (1167 words)

	Simon Bolivar the liberator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He was the son of Colonel Juan Vicente Bolivar y Ponte, and his mother was Mrs.
		Bolivar received an invitation from Madrid of his uncle Esteban.
		In addition, he pardoned all his enemies and its last desire is that their rest were taken to Venezuela and rest in the National cemetery of Caracas.
	www.fuerzasarmadasecuador.org /english/historia/ecuadorgrancolombiabolivar.htm (339 words)

	Librator
		His teacher and mentor Simon Rodriguez guides the youth who is ‘born of four sides’ of the ethnic coin through the Venezuelan heartlands, and the early Bolivar is exposed and awakens to the social exploitation of his ethnic brothers.
		Bolivar enters his formative years and the rebel emerges from the shadows of his youth, and soon he is in Madrid learning the customs of the royal court.
		Bolivar desperately tries to enforce his will on the break-away countries and through the serious decline of his health, Bolivar fails to achieve due to the loss of his re-election as President, and the assassination attempt initiated by Santander.
	www.marcusthompson.com /Liberator.html (1196 words)

	USS Simon Bolivar (SSBN 641)
		Deactivated while still in commission in September 1994, SIMON BOLIVAR was both decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list on February 8, 1995.
		The Navy tells a press conference that the missiles aboard the SIMON BOLIVAR were not armed and there was no danger of explosion or nuclear radiation.
		The SIMON BOLIVAR surfaces and the crew cuts away a 4-foot-high, 15-foot-long section of the conning tower so the submarine could proceed to port.
	united-states-navy.com /ssbn/ssbn641.htm (401 words)

	Simon Bolivar - liberator of South America - General Simón Bolivar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Although I wrote this biography of Simon Bolivar in the same way that I would write a novel, to move fast and be easy to read, the facts about the man and his era are authentic.
		Bolivar was a visionary far ahead of his time and should be recognized as one of the great men of history.
		Simon Bolivar's character, convictions, and lifelong struggle to liberate his native Venezuela from Spanish rule are related in straightforward prose.
	www.1earth.com.au /militaria/b/bolivar.html (742 words)

	Simon Bolivar
		Pronounced As: simon bolvär, 1783-1830, South American revolutionary who led independence wars in the present nations of Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
		Born of a wealthy creole family in Caracas, Venezuela, Bolívar was educated by tutors such as Andrés Bello and Simón Rodríguez, and was influenced by the writings of European rationalists such as John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau.
		He boldly led (1810-19) a band of llaneros [plainsmen] in skillful guerrilla warfare against the Spanish, aided Simón Bolivar at the battle of Carabobo (1821), and drove (1823) the Spanish from their last Venezuelan stronghold at Puerto Cabello.
	www.nuevamerica.com /simonbolivar.htm (740 words)

	Bolivar in Context (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Throughout the nineteenth century, we will see incessant civil war resulting from the powder keg of popular unrest and the unresolved conflicts between conservatives and liberals, centralists and federalists, one regional power center versus another, etc. To a certain degree, these wars are a legacy of the contradictory and unfinished "victory" of triumph.
		Simon Bolivar was part of the creme de la creme of Venezuela's elite.
		At this time, Bolivar had not cemented his authority over other patriot warlords and suffered the consequences; when he needed them to defend Caracas and the second republic, they were not there for him.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /dadd/453/warsindep.html (812 words)

	Statue / monument of Simon Bolivar in Washington DC by Sculptor deWeldon Felix
		Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) was born into the Spanish ruling class of Venezuela and spent some of his teen years being educated in Spain.
		As a result, Bolivar resolved to dedicate his life to freeing Venezuela from the domination of Spain.
		Bolivar served as president until 1830 when Venezuela and Ecuador seceded from the union in opposition to his dictatorial methods in commanding the government.
	www.kittytours.org /thatman2/search.asp?subject=103 (238 words)

	AllRefer.com - SimOn BolIvar (Latin American History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		SimOn BolIvar[sEmOn´ bOlE´vAr] Pronunciation Key, 1783–1830, South American revolutionary who led independence wars in the present nations of Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Simon Bolivar
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bolivar.html (147 words)

	V24N4 - Personality Profile: Simon Bolivar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Simon Bol'var, also known as The Liberator, was a South American Creole soldier and statesman who led the revolutions against Spanish rule in Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia.
		Simon Bol'var was born on 24 July 1783 in Caracas, Venezuela.
		The son of a Venezuelan aristocrat of Spanish descent, Bol'var was born into a family of Creole land-owning elite.
	www.mindef.gov.sg /safti/pointer/back/journals/1998/Vol24_4/11.htm (1685 words)

	Buckner, Simon Bolivar, Jr. -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The bolivar was adopted as Venezuela's monetary unit in 1879, prior to which independent Venezuela used three separate currencies: the escudo, the peso, and the venezolano.
		U.S. pathologist and bacteriologist Simon Flexner was born in Louisville, Ky. He was director of laboratories for the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research from 1903 to 1935.
		Known chiefly for her romantic ballads sung in a melancholy alto voice, U.S. singer and songwriter Carly Simon had her greatest success in the early 1970s with a series of soft-rock singles and albums with emotional, highly personal themes.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9017899?tocId=9017899 (747 words)

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