| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Bolívar, Simón |
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| DATES: | 1783–1830 |
| VARIANTS: | Known as “the Liberator.” |
| South American revolutionary leader who defeated the Spanish in 1819, was made president of Greater Colombia (now Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, and Ecuador), and helped liberate (1823–1834) Peru and Bolivia.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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