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Bolivar, Simon
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
or Surnamed the Liberator, general and statesman, born at Caracas; a man of good birth and liberal education; seized with the passion for freedom during a visit to Madrid and Paris, devoted himself to the cause of S. American independence; freed from the yoke of Spain Venezuela and New Grenada, which, in 1819, he erected into a republic under the name of Colombia; achieved in 1824 the same for Upper Peru, henceforth called Bolivia, after his name; accused of aspiring to the Dictatorship, he abdicated, and was preparing to leave the country when he died of fever, with the sage reflection on his lips, "The presence of a soldier, however disinterested he may be, is always dangerous in a State that is new to freedom"; he has been called the Washington of S. America (1783-1830).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Bolivar, Simon'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/b/bolivar-simon.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
