Bolívar's forces defeated Domingo Monteverde's Spanish army in a series of battles, taking Caracas on August 6, 1813 and besieging Monteverde at Puerto Cabello in September 1813.

Bolívar's forces easily defeated the overtaxed and underpaid royalist army in a series of battles, entered Caracas on August 6, 1813, and laid siege to Monteverde, who had retreated to Puerto Cabello.

Bolívar's grandfather, Juan de Bolívar y Martínez de Villegas, paid 22, 000 ducats to the monastery at Santa Maria de Montserrat in 1728 for a title of nobility that had been granted by the king, Philip V of Spain, for its maintenance.

Bolívar's parents found themselves in a circumstance that forced them to entrust the baby Simón Bolívar to the care of Doña Ines Manceba de Miyares and the family's slave la negra Hipolita.

A couple of years later Bolívar returned to the love and care of his parents, but this traumatic experience would have a severe effect on Bolívar's life.

Bolívar's father died in his sleep when Bolívar was two and a half years old.

* Bolivar ( Basque Country, Spain ), Bolívar's ancestor's home town ; a monument to Bolívar, a gift by Venezuela.

A museum devoted to Simón Bolívar, his family and ancestors was built in Simón Bolívar's patrimonial house.

Despite some intelligence that Bolívar was on the move, the Spanish considered the route impassable, and therefore, they were taken by surprise when Bolívar's small army emerged out of the mountains on July 5.

Piar, however, did not accept Bolívar's supreme command, and once again Bolívar left Venezuela and went to New Granada ( 1815 ).

Bolívar's campaign to liberate New Granada of 1819-1820 was part of the Colombian and Venezuelan wars of independence and was one of the many military campaigns Simón Bolívar fought in them.

Despite some intelligence that Bolívar was on the move, the Spanish doubted Bolívar's army could make the trip, and therefore, they were taken by surprise when Bolívar's small army emerged out of the mountains on 5 July.

Ciudad Bolívar's historic center is well preserved, with original colonial buildings around the Plaza Bolívar, including a cathedral.

García Márquez believed that most of the information available on Bolívar was one-dimensional: " No one ever said in Bolívar's biographies that he sang or that he was constipated ... but historians don't say these things because they think they are not important.

The crown never issued the patent of nobility, and so the purchase became the subject of lawsuits that were still going on during Bolívar's lifetime, when independence from Spain made the point moot.

He foils an attempt by veterans of Napoleon's Imperial Guard to free Napoleon from his captivity on Saint Helena, captures a slave ship, and encounters Simón Bolívar's army.

In 2001, Chávez swore in all official Bolivarian Circles at the first national reunion under the following oath, which was adapted from Bolívar's own oath on the hill of Monte Sacro in 1805:

In 1814, heavily reinforced Spanish forces in Venezuela lost a series of battles to Bolívar's forces but then decisively defeated Bolivar at La Puerta on June 15, took Caracas on July 16, and again defeated his army at Aragua on August 18, at a cost of 2, 000 Spanish casualties out of 10, 000 soldiers as well as most of the 3, 000 in the rebel army.

Morillo's forces would be evacuated from the Llanos for months and no one would anticipate that Bolívar's troops would be on the move.

Bolívar's political thought — his emphasis on a strong, centralized government — became the basis of conservative thought in nineteenth-century South America.

Bolívar's attack on New Granada is considered one of the most daring in military history, compared by contemporaries and some historians to Napoleon's crossing of the Alps in 1800 and José San Martín's Crossing of the Andes in 1817.

Morillo's forces would be gone from the Llanos for months and no one would anticipate that Bolívar's troops would be on the move.

In April, MacGregor sailed with Bolívar's fleet as a brigadier-general to Venezuela, landing on the island of Margarita before crossing to Carupano on the mainland.

Two years after reading, García Márquez asked Mutis for his permission to write a book on Bolívar's last voyage.

The text of the constitution is an interesting hybrid of jurisprudential and political norms drawn from sources as wide as Simón Bolívar's writings on constitutionality and popular sovereignty, José Martí, the Peruvian Marxist José Carlos Mariátegui, and Evgeny Pashukanis.

The story explores the labyrinth of Bolívar's life through the narrative of his memories.

Eventually the M-19 returned Bolívar's sword as a symbol of its demobilization and desire to change society through its participation in legal politics.

Bolívar's supporters, who later formed the nucleus of the Conservative Party, sought strong centralized government, alliance with the Roman Catholic Church, and a limited franchise.

In 1815, at a key period of Bolívar's fight for Venezuelan independence, he gave the Venezuelan leader asylum and provided him with soldiers and substantial material support.

Bolívar's vision for territorial unity disintegrated finally when General Juan Eligio Alzuru undertook a military coup against Espinar's authority.

The majority of the wealth of Simón de Bolívar's descendants came from the estates.

( If successful, Bolívar's older brother, Juan Vicente, would have become the Marqués de San Luis and Vizconde de Cocorote.

Bolívar's mother, Maria Concepción de Palacios y Blanco, died when he was approaching nine years of age.

Don Simón Rodriguez was later to become Bolívar's friend and mentor, and he instilled in the young man the ideas of liberty, enlightenment, and freedom.

" His instructor Don Simón understood the young Bolívar's personality and inclinations, and tried from the very beginning to be an empathetic friend.

Bolívar's dream had been to engender an American Revolution-style federation among all the newly independent republics, with a government set up solely to recognize and uphold the rights of the individual.

O ' Leary disobeyed the order and his writings survived, providing historians with a wealth of information about Bolívar's liberal philosophy and thought, as well as details of his personal life, such as his long love affair with Manuela Sáenz.

In 2010, symbolic remains of Bolívar's lover, Manuela Sáenz, were interred by his side during a national ceremony reuniting them and honoring her role in the liberations.

In April 2010, infectious diseases specialist Paul Auwaerter studied records of Bolívar's symptoms and concluded that he might have suffered from chronic arsenic poisoning, but that both acute poisoning and murder were unlikely.

In July 2010, Bolívar's body was ordered to be exhumed to advance the investigations.

Their great-grandchildren, Bolívar's closest living relatives, Pedro, and Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa lived in Caracas, as of 2009.

María Antonia became Bolívar's agent to deal with his properties while he served as president of Gran Colombia and she was an executrix of his will.

She retired to Bolívar's estate in Macarao, which she inherited from him.

Bolívar's square in Caracas.

Bolívar's political legacy has been massive and he is a very important figure in South American political history.