Simón Bolívar

Life and beginnings

Simón Bolívar was born in Caracas, in the Captaincy General of Venezuela, on July 24, 1783, and died in Santa Marta on December 17, 1830. He was born into a wealthy family of American-born Spaniards and lost both parents as a child. He was educated abroad and lived in Spain. In Madrid from 1800 to 1802 he met Enlightenment ideas and married María Teresa Rodríguez del Toro y Alaysa, who died of yellow fever in Venezuela in 1803. From 1803 to 1805 a Grand Tour ended in Rome, where he swore to end Spanish rule in the Americas. He returned to Venezuela in 1807 and argued independence to other wealthy creoles. The guide calls him El Libertador and starts from the Napoleonic Wars weakening Spain in the Americas. The biography says the same turning point more narrowly: when Napoleon’s Peninsular War weakened Spanish authority, Bolívar became a zealous combatant and politician in the Spanish American wars of independence.^{[1] [3]}

The published Napoleon essay is that emperor, including the decision to put Joseph Bonaparte on the Spanish throne in 1808. Bolívar is not Joseph and not Napoleon. The link is the weakening of Spanish authority, not a shared command.^[2]

Defining achievements

He began as a militia officer in 1810, in the Venezuelan War of Independence, fighting royalists for the first and second Venezuelan republics and for the United Provinces of New Granada. After Spanish forces subdued New Granada in 1815 he went into exile on Jamaica. In Haiti he met Alexandre Pétion. He promised to abolish slavery in Spanish America, received military support, and returned to Venezuela. He established a third republic in 1817 and crossed the Andes to liberate New Granada in 1819. With his allies he defeated the Spanish in New Granada in 1819, in Venezuela and Panama in 1821, in Ecuador in 1822, in Peru in 1824, and in Bolivia in 1825. Venezuela, New Granada, Ecuador, and Panama were joined as the Republic of Colombia, called Gran Colombia, with Bolívar president there and in Peru and Bolivia. The guide says he was president and dictator of Gran Colombia and did not fully realize his ambitions, and that the new states stayed turbulent. President is the biography’s office. Dictator is the guide’s extra word. This essay does not upgrade the guide’s word into a second constitution.^{[1] [3]}

Legacy and interpretation

The legacy is a chain of republics and a death in Santa Marta at 47, not a finished union. Gran Colombia is the merger the biography names. The separate victories from 1819 to 1825 are how that merger was argued on the ground. The guide’s picture of an unrest that would not settle matches the fact that he died without the ambitions closed. It does not name which constitution failed. A free building in a conquered settlement is not the Andes crossing of 1819.^{[1] [3]}

No published civilization is Gran Colombia, Venezuela, or Bolivia. The published Spain essay is the Catholic Monarchs and the Escorial, not the royalist armies of 1815. This essay does not send the reader there as if Isabella were his opponent. The published Napoleon essay is the European war that the biography says weakened Spanish authority. That is the cross-link.^{[1] [2]}

A closer look

The guide gives war support, a free constructible in a settlement conquered for the first time, and purchases during unrest. Those are rules. The biography’s support from Haiti was an army after a promise to abolish slavery. Unrest on a city screen is not the Jamaica exile. The agenda, Cornerstone of Freedom, changes relationships by who has the fewest unhappy settlements and who has the most. Happiness is not the oath in Rome.^{[1] [3]}

The short title is Simón Bolívar, the guide’s heading. The Chinese page titles him with its own spelling and, in one unlock sentence, adds a stray syllable. This essay uses the page title, not that slip. There is one leader entry.^{[3] [4]}

In Civilization VII

The English guide names the ability El Libertador and the agenda Cornerstone of Freedom. The simplified Chinese guide names the same slots in its own words. The page adds him as part of the paid Crossroads of the World Collection, included in some higher editions and sold separately if the base game is owned. That is a DLC statement. Yields are not copied. There is no second persona.^{[3] [4]}

The published Napoleon essay is the European side of the Peninsular War, not these republics. The first step back from the ability is to keep the 1805 oath, the Haiti promise, the victories of 1819 through 1825, and the death in Santa Marta on December 17, 1830, as separate lines.^{[1] [2] [3]}