1 She and husband Cosmo Duff Gordon were accused in the press of bribing crew to row faster after 12 were saved in their boat, which was built for 40. 2  Tabloids of the day dubbed it the 'Money Boat' though a British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry would later clear the couple of wrongdoing.
Updated March 30, 2017. Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) was the greatest leader of Latin America's independence movement from Spain. A superb general and a charismatic politician, he not only drove the Spanish from northern South America but also was instrumental in the early formative years of the republics that sprang up once the Spanish had gone.
Bolivarâs Message to the Congress at Angostura, 1819, Modern History Sourcebook Biography SimÃ³n BolÃ­var is nicknamed the âLiberatorâ because of his role in liberating what would become Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia from control by Spain. Born into a wealthy family in Venezuela, BolÃ­var was educated in Spain.