Simon Bolivar was a Venezuelan military officer and statesman who led what are currently the countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela to independence from the Spanish Empire. He is known colloquially as El Libertador, the Liberator, of America.
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led what are currently the countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela to independence from the Spanish Empire
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24 July 1783
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17 December 1830
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He is known colloquially as El Libertador, the Liberator, of America.
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Infobox birth date: 1783-7-24
In Era: The Late Modern Period, lead paragraph, lifespan
Infobox: born 1783-7-24; died 1830-12-17
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In Venezuela during his Admirable Campaign, Simón Bolívar instituted a policy of a war to the death, in which royalist Spanish Americans would be purposely spared but even neutral Peninsulares would be killed, to drive a wedge between the two groups.
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