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Simon Bolivar and Spanish American Independence, 1783-1830 (The Anvil Series)
Simon Bolivar and Spanish American Independence 17831830 - The Anvil Series Author:John J. Johnson Simon Bolivar, liberator of five nations from Spanish tutelage, is one of the towering public figures that our hemisphere has produced. As a soldier he gave warfare in America a new dimension by establishing that makeshift forces, if imaginatively led and with grass roots support, could triumph over better drilled, better equipped external armi... more »es. Some internationalists credit Bolivar with planting the seeds of the League of Nations and the United Nations.« less