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HAITI AND SANTO DOMINGO
In 1803, Jean Jacques Dessalines finally defeated the French troops and, in 1804, declared the independence of Haiti. -
NAPOLEONIC WARS
The Spanish American wars of independence were the numerous wars against Spanish rule. With the goal of political independence, these began shortly after the French invasion of Spain in 1807 during the Napoleonic Wars of Europe. -
CAUSES OF LATIN AMERICA INDEPENDENCE
Napoleon names king of Spain To the causes, we must add the events that precipitated the independence. Autonomous Boards that promised to govern until the return of The Junta de Sevilla was proclaimed Supreme Government of all Spain . -
THE INDEPENDENCE IN LATIN AMERICA
After three centuries of colonial rule, independence suddenly came to most of Spanish and Portuguese America. It began with the proclamation of Sovereign
Some of them, especially the first in Quito, were repressed with fire and blood by the Spanish authorities -
THE LACK OF A KING, OCCASION OF AMERICAN BOARDS
Joseph Bonaparte and the colonial authorities appointed by the Spanish king, who no longer had any power.
Quito was to be the first in the history of
Spanish America to proclaim, on August 10, 1809, a government of its own, not appointed by the Crown. -
FROM THE BOARDS TO THE WARS OF INDEPENDENCE
But the reaction of the Spanish led to the polarization of positions and the Creole elites multiplied, since 181o, the proclamation, without ambiguity, of independence. The military reaction of the colonial authorities was immediate. -
SPAIN DISCRIMINATED
Spain discriminated against the Creoles, appointing mostly new Spanish immigrants to important posts in the colonial administration. At the Caracas hearing (tribunal), for example, no native Venezuelans were named between 1786 and 1810. -
INDEPENDENCE OF SOUTH AMERICA
When Fernando VII returned to the throne in 1814, patriotic military campaigns subsisted in Venezuela and the Río de la Plata.
VII ordered to organize the so-called «Peacekeeping expedition» which, under the command of Marshal Pablo Morillo, sailed from Cádiz in 1815. -
INDEPENDENCE OF CHILE
San Martin was not discouraged and decided to continue with his plans, only now he first had to liberate Chile -
NEW GRANADA AND VENEZUELA
Bolívar's campaign to liberate New Granada from 1819-1820 was part of the Colombian and Venezuelan wars of independence and was one of many military campaigns that Simón Bolívar fought. He provided Bolívar with the financial and human resources to complete his victory over the Spanish in Venezuela and Colombia. -
MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE
Frustrated in their desire for autonomy and free trade, a group of conservative creoles proclaimed independence in 1821, but only when Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was proclaimed president of the Republic in 1833 Spain only recognized Mexican independence in 1839. -
CENTRAL AMERICA
Guatemala with its provinces declared its independence from the Spanish Crown and, shortly after, annexed Mexico to defend itself better from Spain. Provinces of the Center of America, being its capital city of Guatemala. This led to a civil war , in which Guatemala could not prevail. -
BRAZIL: MONARCHICAL INDEPENDENCE
When Napoleon invaded Portugal, Juan VI took refuge in Brazil and later promoted a legal reform by declaring Brazil as the territorial base of the «Empire of Brazil, Portugal, and the Algarve». In 1821, Juan VI returned to Portugal, leaving his son
In 1831 he abdicated and was succeeded by his son, Pedro II, who reigned until 1889 when the first republic was proclaimed. -
INDEPENDENCE OF ECUADOR
The Ecuadorian War of Independence was fought between 1820 and 1822 between various South American armies and Spain for control of the lands of the Real Audiencia de Quito, a Spanish colonial administrative jurisdiction from which the modern Republic of Ecuador eventually emerged. -
END OF THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
Colombia to take command of an expedition to Peru.
September of that year, he arrived in Lima and met with
Sucre and the Peruvian leaders to plan the attack. Bolivar and Sucre defeated the Spanish army at the Battle of Junín . -
The caribbean divided
By 1825, everything had disappeared except for a handful of islands in the Caribbean, divided into several independent states. How could Spain's New World Empire crumble so quickly and completely? The answer is long and complicated, but these are some of the essential causes of the Latin American Revolution -
. ARGENTINA, PARAGUAY, AND URUGUAY
The first Junta de Buenos Aires organized three military campaigns to subdue the Spanish forces in the interior, but they were not successful.
In the Banda Oriental, the rural population rose against the Spanish authorities in
Montevideo.
The Oriental Republic of Uruguay, fed up with its disappointments with the
SOCIAL STUDIES – 9TH centralism of Buenos Aires, and after the War with Brazil , it would be established as an independent entity in 1828. -
SAN MARTIN AND BOLIVAR
In their meetings in Guayaquil , Bolivar, liberator, and president of Gran Colombia, and San Martin, protector of Peru, talked about what was missing to complete the freedom of America: the defeat of the last realistic bastion in Peru. Surprisingly, San Martin gave Bolivar the initiative of the war completely. He returned to Lima, resigned from the government of Peru , and returned to his home in Mendoza, Argentina . -
THE CASE OF PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rico continues within the Spanish system until the war between EE. After the defeat of this, the island of Puerto Rico happens to be administered by EE. -
INDEPENDENCE OF CUBA
Cuban Revolutionary Cuba. The USA does not want to lose the possibility of taking over the largest island of the Antilles and, in
The intervention of EE.
