SHARING MY COUNTRY- HISTORICAL FIGURES OF COLOMBIA.

JUAN STEBAN ZAPATA RAMIREZ

INSTITUCIÓN EDUCATIVA HANS DREWS ARANGO

MATTER INGLES
GRADE 8ª
 SIMON BOLIVAR.
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco.
Born in Caracas on July 24, 178- died in Santa Marta on December 17, 1830.

Venezuelan military and politician, one

of the most prominent figures of the
american enmancipation against the
spanish empire along with the
Argentine Jose de san martin. who also
supported the independence of
different countries such as Bolivia,
Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and
Venezuela. he was awarded the title of
liberator.
 FAMILY HISTORY.
• Son of Don Juan Vicente Bolívar and Doña
María de la Concepción Palacios y Blanco. A
aristocrat, Simón Bolívar received an
excellent education from their tutors. At
fifteen, upon losing his parents, his uncle,
Don Carlos Palacios, I send you to Spain to
follow your education.

• His mother died in Caracas on July 6, 1792, as a result

of a hemotysis.
• His father died on January 19, 1786, he died in
Caracas.
He married María Teresa Josefa
Antonia Joaquina Rodríguez del
Toro Alayza in Spain. After only
two years of courtship and eight
months of marriage, he died of
yellow fever at age 21. Bolívar
swore and kept his promise not
to remarry.
LIFE AS A MILITARY. HIS IDEALS.
 Simon Bolivar thought that freedom
 In 1797 he began his military instruction should involve all men and women,
in the White Volunteer Militia Regiment of without discrimination of races or
the Valleys of Aragua. religious beliefs since we are all equal in
the eyes of GOD.
 His tenacity started from his own
experience, acquired in the face of the
injustices observed in the old and new
world.
 A MAN WITH AMBITIONS.
Dreaming of forming a great
For this reason, not satisfied with A man with righteous ideals
confederation that would unite all
the liberation of Venezuela, he who dreamed of a better
the old Spanish colonies of
crossed the Andes and defeated the future, so he fought tirelessly
America, inspired by the model of
Spanish royalist troops in the with his troops and hierarchy.
the United States as well as
Battle of Boyacá, which gave
entrepreneurs for a solid and
independence to the viceroyalty of
libertarian America.
New Granada from present-day
Colombia.
 THE LIBERATOR
THE TRUE BOLIVARIAN
DREAM.
 DEATH OF SIMÓN BOLÍVAR.
The cause of his death was tuberculosis, his mortal remains received a Christian
burial in the main altar of the sumptuous cathedral basilica of Santa Marta. Later,
they were transferred to Venezuela and buried in the chapel of the Bolivar family,
in the cathedral of Caracas.