Francis Loraine Petre maintained, he used statistical information supplied by the President of Columbia. The book includes photographs that he took himself. His second book on South America was "Simon Bolivar—El Libertador; a life of the chief leader in the revolt against Spain in Venezuela, New Granada and Peru." Francis Loraine Petre Francis Loraine Petre (22 February 1852 – 6 May 1925) was a British civil servant in India and a military historian upon his retirement. He wrote a two-volume regimental history of the Norfolk Regiment, but is best known for his works on the Napoleonic Wars. The grandson of the 11th Baron
Bolivar, South Australia Wakefield Road, part of the National Highway. It will also be crossed by the Northern Connector freeway due to open in 2019. The exit at Bolivar Road/Kings Road will be in Bolivar, and is likely to service the new entrance to the waste water treatment works. Frederic Custance made Australia's first monoplane flight at Bolivar on 17 March 1910. Bolivar, South Australia Bolivar is an outer northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the City of Salisbury. The suburb was established in 1956, and was named after the "General Bolivar Hotel". This hotel had been built by