Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions

Simon Bolivar was an important part of south america's history. He is well known for his victories over the Spanish armies. He also liberated many countries from the Spanish. After his trip to europe he returned to Venezuela and declared independence from the Spanish. He then left Venezuela and went to what is Colombia today. Soon after the Spanish reconquered Venezuela. Then he began to command a Colombian army. He tried to enlist people from Cartagena in order to capture Santa Marta, but he had too many political and military conflicts there so he fled to Jamaica. There he made a deal they would supply him with an army and he would free slaves. With a victory at the Battle Of Boyaca he added new granada (Colombia) to the countries he had freed from Spain and created Gran Colombia which consisted of modern countries: Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador. Though he wasn't finished yet in july 26 and 27 of 1822 he met with Jose de San Martin who was the protector of Peru because he had only partially liberated them. Bolivar took over the task to free Peru. He defeated the spanish again in 1824 with the help of Antonio Jose de Sucre. Thus on 1825 the republic of Bolivia was created. Which was named after Simon Bolivar. This explains why he is so famous he is mostly famous for his well thought out political and military thoughts. Also for defeating the spanish time after time, but of course he couldn't have done it without the people who helped him all throughout the wars.