Monday, October 15, 2007

Simon Bolivar and Latin Americans Revolutions

Simon Bolivar was a very important person for Latin Americans specially in south America. His is called a liberator. He gave freedom to many south American countries specially in the northern part of south America, such as Venezuela, Ecuador Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru from Spain. there is a country named after him and that is Bolivia. Bolivia was named after him because he help to create it. He defeated the Spaniards with his small groups of followers and organized troops to attack the Spaniard, and had good tactics such as surprised attacks and made really good decisions in the middle of the battle. He join Francisco de Miranda to help him with the revolution against Spain. He also went from places to places to look for help and gain forces to fight Spaniards. He travel to Europe and visited many countries and he went to the united states that just got its independence from Great Britain. So he though it was time for his country Venezuela to gain independence. He got influence by U.S independence and French revolution. With a lot of effort this honorable man and the others who help him defeat the Spaniards, gave freedom to many countries in south America.

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