Record details

• ISBN: 9781510760653
• ISBN: 1510760652
• Physical Description: 404 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
• Edition: First North American edition
• Publisher: New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, 2021.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"A Herman Graf book."

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-396) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The liberation of New Granada (modern Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama): Young Bolívar ; Madrid ; The longest empire ; Tremors ; Miranda : poseur, seducer, genius ; Revolutionary general ; The 'invasion' of Venezuela ; ¡Independencia! ; The avenger ; Up river, across mountains ; Into Venezuela ; Hell's legionnaires ; Down and out in Jamaica ; The Orinoco ; Páez ; The crossing of the Andes ; Victory at Carabobo -- The liberation of Peru (modern Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia): Towards the silver mountain ; Showdown with San Martín ; Trapped in Lima ; Lances in the mountains -- Downfall: The idealist ; The division of Colombia ; Showdown with Santander ; Ploughing the sea.

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Subject:

Bolívar, Simón, 1783-1830.
Latin America > History > Wars of Independence, 1806-1830.
South America > History > Wars of Independence, 1806-1830.
South America > Politics and government > 1806-1830.
Revolutionaries > South America > Biography.
Heads of state > South America > Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.