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NEW GRNADA AND VENEZUELA
was the name given on 27 May 1717 to the jurisdiction of the Spanish Empire in northern South America, corresponding to modern Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Created in 1717 by king Felipe V, inside of a new territorial control policy, it was suspended in 1723 due to financial problems and was restored in 1739 until the independence movement suspended it again in 1810. -
CAUSES OFLATIN AMERICA INDEPENDENCE
Numerous foreign influencies inspired and fueled the Latín American Independence movement. Following the French and Indian War, the British colonies came under increased scrutiny by Parliament. The colonists grew increasingly dissatisfied with their relationship with Great Britain. -
THE LACK OF A KING, OCCASION OF AMERICAN BOARDS
When proclaiming the Sovereign Boards, the
South American Creoles held three theses:
The rejection of Napoleon's claims to
America, the loyalty to Ferdinand VII and,
most importantly, the illegitimacy of both
Joseph Bonaparte and the colonial
authorities appointed by the Spanish king,
who no longer had any power. -
ARGENTINA, PARAGUAY, AND URUGUAY
The War of the Triple Alliance or the Paraguayan War, called by the Paraguayans Guerra Grande, the war against the Triple Alliance or the Guasú War, and by the Brazilians Guerra do Paraguai, was the military conflict in which the Triple Alliance a coalition formed by the Empire of Brazil, Uruguay, 8 and Argentina fought militarily against Paraguay between 1864 and 1870. -
FROM THE BOARDS TO THE WARS OF INDEPENDENCE
The Spanish authorities fiercely repressed the first of the cities to form a
Sovereign Junta. They tried to prevent the contagion. The viceroys of Lima
and Bogota immediately sent troops with the order to besiege Quito and not
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INDEPENDENCE OF SOUTH AMERICA
After three centuries of colonial rule, independence came rather suddenly to most of Spanish and Portuguese America. Between 1808 and 1826 all of Latin America except the Spanish colonies of Cuba and Puerto Rico slipped out of the hands of the Iberian powers who had ruled the region since the conquest. -
INDEPENDENCE OF CHILE
The Chilean War of Independence was a war between pro-independence Chilean Criollo peoples seeking political and economic independence from Spain and royalist creoles supporting continued allegiance to the Captaincy General of Chile and membership of the Spanish Empire. -
CENTRAL AMERICA
Central America Spanish: América Central, pronounced aˈmeɾika senˈtɾal About this soundlisten, Centroamérica pronounced [sentɾoaˈmeɾika About this soundlisten is sometimes defined as a subregion of the Americas. This region is bordered by Mexico to the north, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south. -
INDEPENDENCE OF ECUADOR
The Ecuadorian War of Independence was fought from 1820 to 1822 between several South American armies and Spain over control of the lands of the Royal Audience of Quito, a Spanish colonial administrative jurisdiction from which would eventually emerge the modern Republic of Ecuador. The war ended with the defeat of the Spanish forces at the Battle of Pichincha on May 24, 1822, which brought about the independence of the entire Presidencia de Quito. -
SAN MARTIN AND BOLIVAR
A fin de ponerse de acuerdo sobre el tipo de gobierno que tendrían los nuevos estados, San Martín y Bolívar acordaron tener una conferencia en Guayaquil. San Martín abogaba por una Monarquía Constitucional, Bolívar en cambio era partidario de una República Democrática. -
PERU
Together with O'Higgins, and with
200,000 pesos that he obtained from
Buenos Aires, San Martín managed to
buy a naval squadron to attack the
Spaniards in Peru by sea. -
END OF THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
The War of Independence of the United States was a warlike conflict that pitted the original Thirteen British Colonies in North America against the Kingdom of Great Britain. It occurred between 1775 and 1783, ending with the British defeat at the Battle of Yorktown and the signing of the Treaty of Paris. -
THE CASE OF PUERTO RICO
On September 23, 1868, the scream of Lares, of independence against
Spain, was produced. The rebellion is crushed in a short time. Puerto Rico
continues within the Spanish system until the war between EE. UU and
Spain. -
MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE
The Mexican War of Independence (Spanish: Guerra de Independencia de México) was an armed conflict and political process, lasting from 1808 to 1821, resulting in Mexico's independence from Spain. It was not a single, coherent event, but local and regional struggles that occurred within the same time period, and can be considered a revolutionary civil war. -
THE CASE OF PUERTO RICO
In an attempt to claim equal rights and fair treatment to the U.S. citizens of Puerto Rico, the current Pro-Statehood government in power, passed a bill to hold a plebiscite on the status of Puerto Rico and begin a process of immediate decolonization. -
BRAZIL: MONARCHICAL INDEPENDENCE
The Independence of Brazil comprised a series of political and military events that occurred in 1821–1824, most of which involved disputes between Brazil and Portugal regarding the call for independence presented by the Brazilian Empire -
THE INDEPENDENCE IN LATIN AMERICA
After three centuries of colonial rule, independence came rather suddenly to most of Spanish and Portuguese America. Between 1808 and 1826 all of Latin America except the Spanish colonies of Cuba and Puerto Rico slipped out of the hands of the Iberian powers who had ruled the region since the conquest. -
HAITI AND SANTO DOMINGO
This chapter on the Haitian decades of Hispaniola begins with the story of a flag. In Arcahaye on 18 May 1802, Jean-Jacques Dessalines obtained the pledges of Generals Christophe, Clervaux, and Pétion to unite under his command.