Simon Bolivar had been in Italy to witness the coronation of Napoleon as the King of Italy. A few days before, he had been informed by his teacher that he would receive an enormous inheritance when he turned 21. In fact, he would become one of the richest men in all of Venezuela and southern America.
During the coronation, several times, (as Bolivar reports), Napolean looks in his direction as if to inquire, "who is this man?" it is after this, that Bolivar walked a short distance to the ruins of Palantine hill, dropped to his knees with tears in his eyes, sighing heavily and pledged his life to the liberation of Southern America from the grasp of Spanish rule.
When Bolivar was 17, he met the love of his life and his wife. Yet, soon after they married, she died. He was struck with grief and admits that if she had lived, his life would most likely have been quite different.
Bolivar's own parents died when he was 3 (his mother) and 9 (his father). he was raised primarily by a Black slave whom he loved, in fact, he stated that she was his mother, and that he knew no other, and that the bond between him and her was unshakeably, as mother and son.
He was educated in Europe. Travelled through Spain, France, England, Italy, and learned and studied languages.
History is made by individuals... ...Bolivar made History as he liberated 5 individual countries from Spanish rule.
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