No, no, no, sir! A thousand times no!
Manuela Sáenz slams the door
Born in Ecuador in 1797, Manuela Sáenz was a force of nature—revolutionary, spy, and the devoted lover of Simón Bolívar, the man at the heart of South America’s fight for independence. At 19, she was pushed into marriage with an English merchant, James Thorne, but she was never one to be tamed. Five years later, she walked away from h…
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