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CAUSES OF LATIN AMERICAN
To the causes, we must add
the events that precipitated the
independence. Later, he named his brother, José Bonaparte, King of Spain and Napoleon
imprisoned Charles IV and his
son Ferdinand VII and forced
them to abdicate in his favor. -
THE INDEPENDENCE IN LATIN AMERICA
It began with the proclamation of the Sovereign Boards in 1809. -
THE LACK OF A KING, OCCASION OF AMERICAN BOARDS
carried out three theses:
The rejection of Napoleon's claims of
America, loyalty to Fernando VII and,
most importantly, the illegitimacy of both
Joseph Bonaparte
Quito was to be the first in the history of
Hispano-America to proclaim, a government of its own -
FROM THE BOARDS TO THE WARS OF INDEPENDENCE
Las autoridades españolas reprimieron ferozmente a la primera de las ciudades en formar una Junta Soberana. Intentaron prevenir el contagio. Los virreyes de Lima y Bogotá envió inmediatamente tropas con la orden de sitiar Quito y no permitir que entre un grano de sal -
ARGENTINA, PARAGUAY, AND URUGUAY
Junta of Buenos Aires organized three military campaigns
to subdue the Spanish forces in the interior, but they were unsuccessful -
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. -
ARGENTINA, PARAGUAY, AND URUGUAY
revolution spontaneously broke out in Asunción, and the resulting government remained independent. This is how the Republic of Paraguay was created -
ARGENTINA, PARAGUAY, AND URUGUAY
Colonel José Artigas commanded the revolutionary troops that
defeated the royalists at the Battle of Las Piedras -
Simón Bolívar -Member of the Caraqueña
Simón Bolívar -Member
of the Caraqueña boards of
1811- was named new military
leader, and in 1813 he liberated Mérida and Caracas -
ARGENTINA, PARAGUAY, AND URUGUAY
José de San Martín, who imposed the Congress of Tucumán, which
founded the United Provinces of South America -
NEW GRANADA AND VENEZUELA.
Morillo soon resumed control of Venezuela and New Granada. But, in 1817 -
INDEPENDENCE OF CHILE
Aconcagua and although he suffered a serious
defeat at Cancha Rayada -
INDEPENDENCE OF CHILE
triumphed in the decisive battle
of Maipú -
NEW GRANADA AND VENEZUELA
Bolívar, Piar, Páez and other Venezuelan leaders reactivated the war. Bolivar
faced and defeated Morillo in Calabozo, in 1818. However, later, Morillo
he counterattacked and defeated Bolívar in the Aragua valley -
NEW GRANADA AND VENEZUELA
So Bolívar
crossed the Andes and defeated the royalists in the battle of Pantano de Vargas. that sealed the independence of New Granada. -
NEW GRANADA AND VENEZUELA
One more year of skirmishes and Morillo and Bolívar sign the War
Regularization Treaty, which ends the "War to the Death" period. -
INDEPENDENCE OF ECUADOR
The
arrival of the patriot army commanded by
Antonio jose de sucre -
INDEPENDENCE OF ECUADOR
Triumph of Antonio José and sucre in pichincha -
INDEPENDENCE OF ECUADOR
Bolívar defeated the realistic grasses in the battle of
Bomboná, and entered Quito triumphantly -
ARGENTINA, PARAGUAY, AND URUGUAY
Buenos Aires, and after the War with Brazil 1825
established as an independent entity in 1828. -
mexican independece
Frustrated in their desire for autonomy and free trade, a group of conservative Creoles proclaimed independence.