Olivia Rodrigo —. Megan Thee Stallion —. Bowen Yang —. He fought with the Spanish army against Portugal , in the African colonies, and against the invasion by Napoleon I 's forces. In he resigned from the Spanish army and sailed home to Argentina, where he offered his services to the revolutionary forces.
This was a huge loss for the Spanish forces. On 28 July he was voted the "Protector" of the newly independent nation. During the same year, he founded the National Library of Peru, to which he donated his collection of books, and praised the new library as " After Peru's parliament had been assembled, he resigned his command.
In , after the death of his wife, Remedios de Escalada, he moved to France with his daughter, where he spent the remainder of his days retired at Boulogne-sur-Mer. His last act on Argentine soil was accepting a gift from Buenos Aires governor Juan Manuel de Rosas and refusing to fight in the civil wars that tore the country apart. He was almost blind and had many health problems because of his advanced age, but continued to write letters and keep in touch with the news from South America.
In he secured the governorship of the province of Cuyo at the foot of the Andes. Here for 3 years he recruited and trained his Army of the Andes, since he believed that Argentina could not be safely independent unless Spanish forces were dislodged from Chile, Peru, and Bolivia.
He made Chile completely free of Spanish troops by May 15, , and began planning for an invasion of Peru. By September , he was out of Peru and back in Chile. When he heard that his beloved wife Remedios was ill, he hastened back to Argentina but she died before he reached her side.
They settled in France. In , Argentina called him back to help settle a dispute with Brazil that eventually would lead to the establishment of the nation of Uruguay. He returned, but by the time he reached Argentina the tumultuous government had once again changed and he was not welcome. He spent two months in Montevideo before returning once again to France.
There he led a quiet life before passing away in He was loyal to his beloved wife during most of his campaigns, only taking a clandestine lover at the end of his fighting in Lima. His early wounds pained him greatly, and San Martin took a great deal of laudanum, a form of opium, to relieve his suffering. Although it occasionally clouded his mind, it did not keep him from winning great battles. He enjoyed cigars and an occasional glass of wine. He refused almost all of the honors and rewards that grateful people of South America tried to give him, including rank, positions, land, and money.
In Argentina, there are numerous statues, streets, parks, and schools named after him. He believed that the people of Latin America needed a firm hand to lead them and was a proponent of establishing a monarchy, preferably led by some European prince, in the lands he liberated. History has borne out his decisions and today his military choices are held up as examples of martial prudence rather than cowardice.
His life was full of courageous decisions, from deserting the Spanish army to fight for Argentina to crossing the Andes to free Chile and Peru, which were not his homeland.
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