Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
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The education of a liberator. -- Introduction : Bolívar and Washington. -- A young man seeks his destiny, 1783-1806. -- Stirrings of independence, 1807-10. -- Struggling for independence. -- Disasters for the foolish Fatherland, 1811-12. -- Victories from Mompox to Araure, 1812-13. -- Spain's reconquest of its colonies. -- Boves and royalist resurgence, 1814-15. -- Regrouping in Jamaica, 1815-16. -- From optimism at Aux Cayes to disaster at Ocumare, 1816. -- Frustration from Jacmel to Guayana, 1816-17 --