Notes on Toussaint L'overture, Simon Bolivar, and Miguel Hidalgo

1. Latin America
Independence

2. Toussaint L’ Overture
• Born Nov. 1 1743 in
what is now Haiti
• Born into slavery
• Allowed to learn to read
and write
• Raised Roman Catholic
• Worked as a house
servant
• Gained his freedom by
age 33

3. Toussaint L’ Overture
• Slave revolt on October
30, 1771
• Acted as the doctor for
the slave army
• Feb. 4 1794 was named
Commander in Chief of
the French colony by
Napoleon

4. Toussaint L’ Overture
• Instituted social reforms
• Built
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, and government
buildings
• Enhanced agriculture
• Rebuilt the armed
forces
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5. Toussaint L’ Overture
• Wrote a constitution
that gave all citizens
equal rights
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• Appointed himself
governor for life
• Able to pick his
successor
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6. Toussaint L’ Overture
• January 1802 –
Napoleon sent 20,000
troops to arrest
L’Overture
• L’Overture is tied up
and sent France and
thrown in a dungeon
where he dies soon
after

7. Simon Bolivar
The Liberator

8. Simon Bolivar
• Born July 24, 1743 in
Caracus, Venezuela
• Family was very wealthy
• Received an excellent
education in Spain
• Returned to Venezuela
in 1807

9. Simon Bolivar
• Napoleon installed his
brother as King of Spain
in 1808
• This led to resistance
movements in South
America
• Venezuela declared its
independence from
Spain in 1810

10. Simon Bolivar
• August 6, 1813 Bolivar
led a military campaign
from what is now
Columbia to take
control of
Caracus, Venezuela and
establish the
independent country of
Venezuela

11. Simon Bolivar
• In 1817, with the help
from Haitian troops
Bolivar took the capital
of what is now
Columbia
• Sept. 7 1821, the
Federation of Gran
Columbia was created
• Venezuela, Columbia, Ec
uador, and Panama
were created from this
area

12. Simon Bolivar
• Bolivar continued to
work to liberate other
areas of South America
• Feb. 10, 1824 the
Peruvian congress
named him dictator of
Peru

13. Simon Bolivar
• August 6, 1825 - the
Republic of Bolivia was
created in honor of
Bolivar
• August 27, 1828 -
Bolivar declared
himself dictator of Gran
Columbia which was
made up of
Columbia, Venezuela, P
eru, Bolivia, and
Ecuador

14. Simon Bolivar
• Uprisings in many parts
of Gran Columbia led to
an assassination
attempt on Sept. 25
1828
• Bolivar resigned as
dictator and planned to
move to Europe
• Bolivar died after a long
bout with tuberculosis
on Dec. 18, 1830

15. Miguel Hidalgo
Leader of Mexican Independence

16. Miguel Hidalgo
• Born May 8, 1753
• Catholic priest in the
town of Delores in New
Spain
• Midnight Sept. 10, 1810
– Father Miguel Hidalgo
rang the church bell and
gave a speech calling for
the death of all
Spaniards

17. Miguel Hidalgo
• Father Hidalgo raised
armies of free Mexicans
and swept through
parts of Mexico and
killed many Spaniards
• Father Hidalgo was
excommunicated from
the Catholic Church for
his actions

18. Miguel Hidalgo
• Was captured royalist
forces after a battle
• Was defrocked and
executed by firing
squad on July 30, 1811