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Simon Bolivar
Simon Jose Antonio de la Santisima Trinidad Bolivar Palacios y Blanco was one of the most important leaders of South America's successful struggle for independence from Spain with Jose de San Martin, collectively known as Bolivar's War.
In 1802, he married Maria Teresa Rodriguez del Toro y Alaysa. She died of yellow fever less than a year later and he never remarried.
Together with Jose de San Martin, Bolivar is regarded as one of the Liberators of Spanish South America.
Family heritage and early life
The Bolivar aristocratic bloodline derives from a small village in the Basque Country, ...
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