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Updated: June 21, 2025
So long as Ayacucho is remembered, the name of Sucre will be remembered. It will last forever." The battle of Ayacucho practically put an end to the War of Independence of America, which began with the battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775. Bolivia's Birth. Bolivar's Triumph. The Monarchical Idea. From Honors to Bitterness
He remarked that the murder had perturbed his spirit. As a matter of fact, from the day he received the news, he sank rapidly in both mind and body. Venezuela was doing her best to thrust the dagger still deeper in Bolivar's heart.
His dream was a federated South America a single nation, in fact, which, save for the great Portuguese possession of Brazil, should extend from Panamá to Cape Horn. Bolivar's enthusiasm on this point refused to be curbed at any cost at all events, at this period.
With this territory as a base, he carried on, during the year 1817, in conjunction with the Llanero horsemen of General Paez, a desperate struggle with the Spaniards. When the rainy season of 1818 began, Bolivar's army had been cut almost to pieces, he had lost prestige as a general, and his civil authority amounted to nothing. Only the cavalry of Paez maintained the Patriot cause.
After this victory at La Victoria, Ribas went to Ocumare, where he saw the work of Rosete, who had left the streets strewn with dying men, women and children, and with the corpses of many victims of his insatiable ferocity. More than 300 had fallen at the hands of the monsters. Bodies and mutilated members appeared everywhere, the best proof of how just had been Bolivar's decree of War to Death.
Even then many years elapsed before the mother country acknowledged the independence of them all. Independence without liberty and statehood without respect for law are phrases which sum up the situation in Spanish America after the failure of Bolivar's "great design."
But Guido was much too angry to take that view. When I added that without Bolivar's help we could hardly reduce the Spaniards to submission, he laughed scornfully and turned away. On the evening of July 25, 1822, the Macedonia dropped anchor in the harbour of Guayaquil, and immediately afterwards two of Bolivar's officers came on board with a friendly greeting from their chief.
Bolivar's prestige was shown at its best. The regiment which, through a mistake, had begun the retreat at the battle of Barquisimeto, Bolivar punished by depriving it of the right to have a flag and a name until it would conquer them in the field of battle.
A close examination of Bolivar's pictures and statues will reveal to the observer that in the eyes of the great man of the South is the same inexpressible melancholy which is obvious in those of our own man of sorrows, the beloved Lincoln.
Pa turned the cock of the extinguisher, and pointed the nozzle at Bolivar's head, and began to squirt the medicated water all over him.
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