SIMON BOLIVAR

Abstract

[Rev. ed.]. Man of ambition: Background -- Youth -- The vow on Monte Sacro -- Francisco de Miranda and the policies of the great powers -- The dawn of revolution -- A mission to London -- The Declaration of Independence -- The first republic -- Man of Freedom: El Manifesto de Cartagena -- The liberator -- The dictator -- Rebellion in the plains -- 1814 -- Long live the chains! -- The letter from Jamaica -- From cliff to cliff -- Piar and Páez -- Man of Glory: Foreign Legion -- The congress of Angostura -- The liberation of New Granada -- The Great Colombian Republic -- Armistice -- The liberation of Venezuela -- The chosen son -- The Guayaquil meeting -- Interlude -- Junín and Ayacucho -- Bolivia -- Simon I? -- The Latin-American League of Nations -- Man of sorrows: Páez and Santander -- The night of September 25 -- Disintegration of Greater Colombia -- Death and transfiguration.