page_title: Francisco de Miranda
section_title: Miranda's ideals
hierarchical_section_title: Francisco de Miranda / Miranda's ideals
caption_attribution_description: Español: Colombia, según Francisco de Miranda en su Proyecto Constitucional de 1798, y naciones involucradas en el Congreso Anfictiónico de Panamá, 1826 English: Colombia, according to Francisco de Miranda in his 1798 Constitutional Project, and nations involved in the Amphictyonic Congress of Panama, 1826
context_page_description: Sebastián Francisco de Miranda y Rodríguez de Espinoza, commonly known as Francisco de Miranda, was a Venezuelan military leader and revolutionary. Although his own plans for the independence of the Spanish American colonies failed, he is regarded as a forerunner of Simón Bolívar, who during the Spanish American wars of independence successfully liberated much of South America. He was known as "The First Universal Venezuelan" and "The Great Universal American". In the National Archive of Venezuela can be found the statute of the blood purity of the father of Francisco de Miranda.
  Miranda led a romantic and adventurous life in the general political and intellectual climate that emerged from the Age of Enlightenment that influenced all of the Atlantic Revolutions. He participated in three major historical and political movements of his time: the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolution and the Spanish American wars of independence. He described his experiences over this time in his journal, which reached to 63 bound volumes.
caption: Comparative maps of the envisioned nation of Colombia, according to Miranda (1798, left) and Bolívar (1826, right).
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