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Show , 1 today in history j MONDAY, JULY 25, 1310. Birthday cf 3ollv,ir, the Llb&rater. Today Is the birthday of Simon Bolivar, Boli-var, the American patriot, who is usually referred to as the Liberator. The piare was Caracas. Venezuela, and the year. 1732. ilia parents were a, aoWe and weaUhv familv r( that F.anilr American city. He received his preliminary education edu-cation at home, studied Jaw in Madrid, and then traveled extensively on the continent. After marryinx In Earojw h returned to his native country. In he visited the United States and becam an enthusiastic admirer of repuWicar. Institutions In-stitutions and reoolved to free his own country from foreign despotism. Upon Bolivar's renrra to Venezcela. he associated himself with a st of patriots ther. and after th Insurrection of Ca- ' racaa. April 13, 13Ir he was gen: to London to gain the interest of the British Brit-ish cabinet. In this he was unsuccessful Returning home disappointed, he con-tinned con-tinned ht nght for the freedom of his country, and when the Spaniards finally reeovar'd poeaesston. he fld to Curacao. I He did not. however, remain lon ln-! ln-! active, but won the sympathy of the republican re-publican president of New Grenada, raised a. force of volunteers defeated the Spaniards several times, his army Increasing In-creasing with each victory, and on Au-great Au-great , 1313. entered Caracas as a. conqueror. con-queror. Eollvar waa hailed as the liberator of Venezuela, and waa made absolute dictator dic-tator In civil and military affairs. After defeating the Spaniard in several engagements, en-gagements, he was hlmretf beaten In the battles of La. Puerta. and Arabia. He fted to Haiti where he assembled the Insurgent refugees, convoked a consrresa ; and Instituted a government. He gained , power rapidly, and was untiring in his energies for the next few years, and In '. IH2 the republic was completely cleared of Royalist troops. I Bolivar waa summoned the same year to help the Peruviana, and in February. I 1321, waa named dictator of that country. The following year the Spaniards were driven from Peru also: anl Bolivar, call- ; Ing a congre -at Lima, formally re- . signed the dictatorship. The southern part of the county was erected into a separate state and named Bolivia, of ' which he waa chosen president for life. In 1S23 Venezuela separated itself from the republic of Colombia. Bolivar's am-. Mtion was loudly denounced, and. vir-' tnall7 forced to resign, he retired to , Cartagena. He died at San Pedro, De- cemfcer I. 133. hvlr.g shortly before hi death written a farewell address to the ; people of Colombia, in which he vindicated vindi-cated his character from the aspersions that had ben cast on It. and complained Wtterry of ingratitude. I Bolivar's remains were removed to Caracas in 113 and in 1333 the Mty of! Lima, erected an equestrian statue to htm describing him ia the Inscription an the "Liberator of the Peruvian nation." It waa Bolivar's hope and ambition to ur.ite the South American repnbllca iato a. strong confederation. The example of Napoleon led him Into acta too arbitrary awl a policy V,o autocratic to please the independenc tamper of his compatriots. During the faction ftghts that prevailed ia his lifetime he waa a mark for virulent viru-lent calumnies: but succeeding genera-tkKsa genera-tkKsa of South Americana have pnfci due honor to his memory. ?IU sarrlnces and 3ujfrteg3, voluntarily nndergone for the sake of the cause in which he wm engaged, en-gaged, are sufficient to disprove tbe csargea orought aj-ainsc him of ignofafe ambit Jon and egotism. On Jury 2S. 1701. the amt United States bank waa established by congress. It ki the date.of the battle of Abouktr in 1739. and of Lundy's Lane. Canada, tn 13 If. Of tbe of dee of admiral of the navy, created hy congress In and upon which Wyoming Wyo-ming territory was formed from Dakota, utafe and Idaho. .Inly 25 is the birthday of Henry Knox, secrfary of war under Washington I73A: Richard Oleaby. the nihvols statesman I321: Thomas Eakias. the artlat (liit: and the dare of th-e death of Andrew Cheaier. the French poet fI751 and S. Taylor Coleridge r 133-1). |