... where on 1805 in the Aventine Hill, he solemnly promised he would fight with his life to make his homeland an independent country free from Spanish control. Bolivar was then twenty-two years old. In 1807 he finally returned to Venezuela with his fellow countryman Francisco Miranda through ... important ports. During this period the battles continued and on July 1812 the two countries signed an armistice that left Venezuela once more under Spanish control. Bolivar returned to Colombia where the first of his political statements urging for independence in Venezuela titled El Manifiesto de ...

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... to. In a way, he collected a fan club of people who thought he was brilliant. They aided him in continuing his work and within fifteen years all of the Spanish countries he helped were free. Modern day, there is a country, currency and and city named after him. Even now, the people of Bolivia remember Simon Bolivar the same way we remember George Washington ... way of looking at government in Latin America. According to historytoday.com, "Many Spanish Americans wanted him to be their dictator, their king." But he was a firm believer in freedom and the type of government that America had...

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... his knowledge and interest in world events. He continued his studies in literary endeavors and also great interest into the liberation of South America away from the Spanish control. It was during this time that Bolivar ran across Simon Rodriguez, his early teenage mentor and teacher from Caracas. The two of them journeyed together ... that his nation would become a grand one that was united in many ways; Bolivar was ready to help his nation overcome the many hardships that he knew that it was about to face. Bolivar felt that without his help in gaining independence for his country that ...

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