Simon Bolivar and the American Revolution

Simon Bolivar is so famous because of the fact that he got most of South America's and Central America's(Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Panama, Bolivia and Ecuador) independence from Spain. He organized and led military forces in order to achieve his goal, South America's independence. There is a country named after him to honor his accomplishments, Bolivia was Peru's upper territory but it became a seperate state in his honor. He helped them defeat Spain and Spanish Monarchy to get each countrie's independence/freedom. When his wife died after arriving in Venezuela from Spain, Bolivar went back to Spain to keep on studying. He started studying about the Enlightement thinkers and the philosophes of Locke, Rosseau, and Voltaire, which helped him realize that South America needed freeom from Spain. While being in Italy and France, he heared about their revolution and victory. Then, he traveled accross the ocean to the United States and heared about their revolution from Great Britain which influenced him in his quest for revolution.