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documents or to give long quotations. Nevertheless, we may fairly affirm that all statements herein made are substantiable by documentary evidence. We have consulted all the books and pamphlets which have been at hand and have studied both sides of debatable questions regarding Bolívar. To follow a chronological order we have been guided by the beautiful biography written by Larrazábal, the man called by F. Lorain Petre "the greatest flatterer of Bolívar." That this assertion is false is proved in the first volume cited below. Petre's monograph contains apparent earmarks of impartiality, but in reality it is nothing but a bitter attack on the reputation of Bolívar. Its translator, a distinguished Venezuelan writer, is to be thanked for the serenity with which he has destroyed his imputations. We find nothing to add in defense of the Liberator.
The following studies have been particularly consulted:
"Bolívar--por los más grandes escritores americanos, precedido de un estudio por Miguel de Unamuno," Madrid and Buenos Aires, 1914,
a book containing the following monographs:
"Simón Bolívar," by Juan Montalvo (Ecuadorian) "Simón Bolívar," by F. García Calderón (Peruvian) "Simón Bolívar," by P.M. Arcaya (Venezuelan) "Bolívar y su campa?a de 1821," by General L. Duarte Level (Mexican)[1] "Bolívar en el Perú," by A. Galindo (Colombian) "Simón Bolívar," by B. Vicu?a Mackenna (Chilean) "Simón Bolívar," by J.B. Alberdi (Argentinean) "Simón Bolívar," by José Martí (Cuban) "El ideal internacional de Bolívar," by Francisco José Urrutia (Colombian) "La entrevista de Guayaquil," by Ernesto de la Cruz (Chilean) "Bolívar, escritor," by Blanco-Fombona (Venezuelan) "Bolívar," by F. Lorain Petre (North American)[2] "Bolívar," by J.E. Rodó (Uruguayan) "Bolívar, íntimo," by Cornelio Hispano (Colombian) "Bolívar, profesor de energía," by José Veríssimo (Brazilian) "Bolívar, legislador," by Jorge Ricardo Vejarano (Colombian)
"Discursos y Proclamas--Simón Bolívar," R. Blanco-Fombona, Paris. "Documentos para la Vida Pública del Libertador" por Blanco y Azpurúa, Caracas. "El Libertador de la América del Sur," Guzmán Blanco, London, 1885. "Estudio Histórico," Aristides Rojas, Caracas, 1884. "La Creación de un Continente," F. García Calderón, Paris. "La Entrevista de Bolívar y San Martín en Guayaquil," Camilo Destruge, Guayaquil, 1918. "La última enfermedad, los últimos momentos y los funerales de Simón Bolívar," Dr. A.P. Révérend, Paris, 1866. "Leyendas Históricas," A. Rojas, Caracas, 1890. "Memorias de O'Leary," translated from English by Simón B. O'Leary, Caracas, 1883. "Orígenes del Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho," discursos del Se?or D. Felipe Francia, Caracas, 1920. "Papeles de Bolívar," Vicente Lecuna, Caracas, 1917. "Pensamientos consagrados a la memoria del Libertador," Caracas, 1842. "Recuerdos del Tiempo Heróico--Pájinas de la vida militar i política del Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho," José María Rey de Castro, Guayaquil, 1883. "Resúmen de la Historia de Venezuela," Baralt y Díaz, Paris, 1841. "Simón Bolívar," Arturo Juega Farrulla, Montevideo, 1915. "Vida de Simón Bolívar," Larrazábal, Madrid, 1918; also sixth edition of same book, New York, Andres Cassard, 1883.
[Footnote 1: Duarte Level is not Mexican but Venezuelan.]
[Footnote 2: Lorain Petre is not North American but English.]
For the use of various documents, articles, and papers, we are also indebted to Dr. Manuel Segundo Sánchez, Director of the National Library of Caracas, Venezuela, as well as to Dr. Julius Goebel of the University of Virginia for his kindness in letting us examine his notes on certain papers existing in the files of the State Department in Washington.
We beg to express our sincere gratitude to Miss Edith H. Murphy of Bay Ridge High School and St. Joseph College of Brooklyn, and to Dr. C.E. McGuire of the Inter American High Commission, for their revision of the original manuscript and their very valuable suggestions regarding the subject matter and the style.
For the appreciations and judgments appearing in this monograph, its author assumes full responsibility.

Table of Contents
Chapter Introduction
I. The Spanish Colonies in America
II. Bolívar's Early Life. Venezuela's First Attempt to Obtain Self-Government (1783-1810)
III. The Declaration of Independence, July 5, 1811. Miranda's Failure (1811-1812)
IV. Bolívar's First Expedition. The Cruelty of War (1812-1813)
V. Bolívar's First Victories (1813)
VI. Araure. Ribas Triumphs in La Victoria. A Wholesale Execution (1813-1814)
VII. The Heroic Death of Ricaurte. Victory of Carabobo and Defeat of La Puerta (1814)
VIII. Bolívar in Exile and Morillo in Power. The "Jamaica Letter" (1814-1815)
IX. Bolívar's Expedition and New Exile. He Goes to Guayana (1815-1817)
X. Piar's Death. Victory of Calabozo. Second Defeat at La Puerta. Submission of Páez (1817-1818)
XI. The Congress of Angostura. A great Address. Campaigning in the Plains (1819)
XII. Bolívar Pays His Debt to Nueva Granada. Boyacá. A Dream Comes True (1819)
XIII. Humanizing War. Morillo's Withdrawal (1820)
XIV. The Second Battle of Carabobo. Ambitions and Rewards. Bolívar's Disinterestedness. American Unity (1821)
XV. Bomboná and Pichincha. The Birth of Ecuador. Bolívar and San Martín Face to Face (1822)
XVI. Junín, a Battle of Centaurs. The Continent's Freedom Sealed in Ayacucho (1822-1824)
XVII. Bolivia's Birth. Bolívar's Triumph. The Monarchical Idea. From Honors to Bitterness (1825-1827)
XVIII. The Convention of Oca?a. Full Powers. An Attempt at Murder (1828)
XIX. Difficulties with Perú. Slanders and Honors.