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Napoleon’s Coronation
tBolívar’s reaction to the coronation wavered between admiration of the accomplishments of a single man and revulsion at Napoleon’s betrayal of the ideals of the French Revolution. -
Napoleon’s invasion of Spain
tBolívar’s reaction to the coronation wavered between admiration of the accomplishments of a single man and revulsion at Napoleon’s betrayal of the ideals of the French Revolution. -
Governor is deprived of his powers
he Spanish governor was officially deprived of his powers and expelled from Venezuela -
Venezuela’s independence
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Civil War
On June 15th, 1813, at Trujillo, he issued his celebrated decree: 'Spaniards and Canarians, depend upon it, you will die even if you are simply neutral, unless you actively espouse the liberation of America. Americans, you will be spared, even when you are guilty'. The exception was significant. This was a civil war, in which Americans predominated on both sides. -
Leaving for South America
In 1817 the Venezuelan representative in London, Luis Lopez Mendez, was asked by Bolivar to recruit a British expeditionary force to join the patriot army. Over 6,000 volunteers left British ports for South America during the next two years, together with ships, sailors and great quantities of arms and munitions. -
the 'law on the distribution of national property among the soldiers'
On October 10th, 1817, he issued the 'law on the distribution of national property among the soldiers', the first of a number of such decrees. The scheme was confined to those who fought in the hardest years, 1816-19, and the intention, as Bolivar put it, was 'to make of each soldier a property-owning citizen'. -
Battle of Carabobo
brought all the caudillo forces together into one grand army and where the British Legion won his special praise. -
Tow montrous enimes
In 1826 he identified 'two monstrous enemies' in the speech presenting his draft constitution to the Bolivian Congress. -
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Bolivar ruled alone in Colombia
Bolivar kept Colombia stable and the rest of South America was in turmoil
