General that organized and led military forces to free the northern portion of South America from Spanish rule in the early nineteenth century. www.carpenoctem.tv/military/bolivar.html
From: Simón Bolívar, An Address of Bolivar at the Congress of Angostura (February 15, 1819), Reprint Ed., (Washington, D.C.: Press of B. S. Adams, 1919). Provided by the Modern History Sourcebook. www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1819bolivar.html