La Bataille de Bautzen 1813

assistance of the British Royal Navy and its Captain Rikord in 1813, the Russians were released after nearly two years in what was described as a harrowing adventure. Hawaii had two celebrated events in 1813. First, pineapple was first cultivated in Hawaii in that year, after the Spaniard, Francisco de Paula, an advisor to King Kamehameha the Great convinced the wise monarch of the wisdom on raising this fruit. The Dole family was certainly grateful. Don Francisco also planted Hawaii’s first coffee in Oahu in 1813. Coffee cultivation began in earnest on the Kona Coast on the Big Island in 1828.

El Libertador Bolivar Latin America was in the midst of revolutionary turmoil stimulated by the invasion of Spain in 1807 by Napoleon and all those attendant events. Spain was unable to control its vast swath of colonies in South and Central America, and several independence movements sprung up in the wake of the power vacuum in Madrid. Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco, or Simon Bolivar for short, led the most important of these. Called El Libertador, by the time 1813 came, Simon Bolivar was invading much of what was northern South America (if you include his military activity in what is today’s Panama you could say southern North America as well). He set up the second Republic of Venezuela in that year, and embarked on series of military campaigns that saw him participate in 472 battles—-79 of them major— and travel on horseback over 123,000 kilometers. He ended up as President of Venezuela; Columbia (including Panama); Bolivia; Ecuador and Peru at one time or another, and in some cases all at once.

La Bataille de Bautzen 1813

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