The Story of Simon Bolivar-Liberator of South America

Originally published in “Encyclopedia Americana” (1836 edition), this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 20 pages, tells the story of South American patriot and statesman Simon Bolivar (known as “The Liberator”) who succeeded in driving the Spanish from Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador.

Sample passage:
Meanwhile, Bolivar obtained authentic intelligence of the horrid and shameless cruelties and oppressions everywhere perpetrated in Venezuela by Monteverde and his subordinate officers, analogous to the butcheries of Fiscar. Exasperated by the knowledge of these events, he issued the famous decree of “guerra a muerte” [war to the death], condemning to death all the Spanish prisoners who might fall into his hands. But he is not of a cruel or sanguinary temper; and this decree seems to have been intended rather to intimidate the royalists than literally to be put in execution.