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Freedom for Venezuala
National congress met in Caracas to draft a constitution. Bolívar joined the debate and that aroused the country. After giving his speech, he said, “let us lay the cornerstone of American freedom without fear. To hesitate it to parish.” After deliberating, the national assembly declared Venezuela free. -
Armistice was signed
This armistice was a treaty that agreed to stop the war for a certain amount of time. The entire country left at the mercy of Spain. Miranda was turned over to the spaniards. Miranda was forced to spend the rest of his life in spanish prisons. -
Trujillo
After the collapse of the First Republic he resolved upon a new policy also war to the death. On June 15th, 1813. He declared the celebrated decree. -
The Retake of Venezuela
With backing from the patriots of New Granada, Bolívar led a force to attempt to free Venezuela. He did this with overwhelming success. -
Law on the distribution of national property among the soldiers
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. Those years were 1816-19. Bolivar wanted to make each soldier a property-owning citizen. -
British
The Venezuelan representative in London, Luis Lopez Mendez, was asked 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 sailors and large amounts of arms and ammunitions. -
Take back Boyacá
On August 7, they encountered the royalists’ main forces at Boyacá. The patriots were outnumbered, but fought back and won the battle. The Spaniards and loyalists fled from Bogotá after the defeat at Boyacá, and on August 10, 1819, Bolívar occupied Bogotá. -
Jamaica Letter
'Do you know what our future was? We were mere consumers, confined to the cultivation of indigo, grain, coffee, sugar, cacao and cotton raising cattle on the empty plains; hunting wild game in the wilderness; mining in the earth to produce gold for the insatiable greed of Spain' -
Congress of Angostura
Congress of Angostura in 1819 to remove from Venezuela “the dark mantle of barbarous and profane slavery”. Bolivar was a military leader and he need the slaves for his military force. -
War of Independence
Simon Bolivar was there at the beginning of the war of independence, and fifteen years later, in 1824, when the last Spanish viceroy surrendered.
