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.
Simon SimÃ³n Jose josÃ© antonio De La Santisma santÃ­sma Trinidad bolivar bolÃ­var y Palacios was, born on July, 24 1783 (in Caracas). New granada now venezuela bolivar bolÃ­var was born into a prosperous family who took their money from rich gold and Copper. Mines They owned in Venezuela young bolivar bolÃ­var moved to spain in 1799. after the deaths of his parents