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Photographer: Bernard Fisher
Taken: May 2, 2015
Caption: Bolivar Plaque
Additional Description: 1783 ∙ Simon Bolivar ∙ 1830"On my honor and my life I swear that this arm shall never rest until it has delivered America from the yoke of the tyrants."
Simon Jose Antonio de la Santisima Trinidad Bolivar, patriot, statesman and liberator, through whose efforts the light of freedom was brought to six South American countries.
Hero of two hundred bloody battles, he analyzed the conditions, political needs and the destinies of the nations for which he fought, foreseeing with rare precision the trend of their struggle for democracy.
Born at Caracas, Venezuela, July 24, 1783. He died in his forty-seventh year near Santa Marta, Colombia, December 17, 1830.
Submitted: May 4, 2015, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p307130
File Size: 0.742 Megabytes

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