CHAPTER VII

Bolivar, the Liberator of Spanish America

How Spain Treated Her Colonies--The Oppression of the People--Bolivar the Revolutionary Leader--An Attempt at Assassination--Bolivar Returns to Venezuela--The Savage Cruelty of the Spaniards--The Methods of General Morillo--Paez the Guerilla and His Exploits--British Soldiers Join the Insurgents--Bolivar's Plan to Invade New Granada--The Crossing of the Andes--The Terror of the Mountains--Bolivar's Methods of Fighting--The Victory at Boyaca--Bolivar and the Peruvians--The Freeing of the Other Colonies 128