BATTLE OF CARABOBO
Jun 13, 2019
3 minutes
Always rising from defeat stronger than before, Simon Bolívar managed to gather an army large enough to march on Caracas, the capital of his homeland. In 1816 he was driven from the city by the Spanish and forced to plead for help wherever he could. The ruler of Haiti’s meagre support so heartened Bolívar that he repaid the kindness by emancipating black slaves wherever he went. As a result, the ranks of his army brought together people of different races
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