The Liberator Simón Bolívar y Palacios (1783-1830) shared these aspirations and, since he went to London in 1810, as ambassador to the Board of Caracas, spoke of a confederation of America, as the British press chose above. In 1814, before the soldiers of the patriot army who arrived in Pamplona after his withdrawal from Venezuelan territory, he proclaimed: "For us, the homeland is America. "This is repeated in documents from 1815, especially in his famous "Carta de Jamaica", in which he synthesizes his enormous continental project to seek the unity of the States that would emerge from the emancipation hard.