Simon Bolivar

Simon Bolivar controlled a military and is a liberator. He came to south America one day and controlled most of it. Except the other part (which is Brazil) that was conquered by Portugal. Gave independence to Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, and named the land Bolivia. He named Bolivia by his last name. He was elected president of Peru in 1825 and later organized in southern Peru a new republic, which was named Bolivia in his honor. He helped free people from south America from the Spaniards which he also agreed to the Haitian soldiers and the freedom fighters to help free south America. There he got his weapon's and ammunition. They figured since he wanted to exile Jamaica from the Spaniards.He went to Europe where he witnessed the coronation of napoleon and gradually became drawn to the idea of revolution. Simon went to Venezuela and had many victories against the Spaniards. But in the Civil war he had defeats against the Royalist army. After he went to Orinoco and returned to lead his rebel forces. He mostly lived in Caracas, Venezuela. He spend his tutoring and teachings in Venezuela where he was being taught there. He married a woman from a Spanish nobility. In a year his wife died from yellow fever. In 1819 he defeated the Spanish and established the republic of Greater Colombia, a federation that included present-day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama and Ecuador.