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It began with the proclamation of Sovereign
Boards in 1809. -
In 1803, Jean Jacques Dessalines finally defeated the French
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In 1804, declared the independence of Haiti. It was, thus, the
second independent country in America, in this case, led by blacks. -
Napoleon
imprisoned Charles IV and his
son Ferdinand VII and forced
them to abdicate in his favor. -
Quito was to be the first in the history of
Spanish America to proclaim -
The first Junta de Buenos Aires (25-051810) organized three military campaigns
to subdue the Spanish forces in the interior, but they were not successful. -
imón Bolívar -Member
of the Caraqueña boards of
1811- was named new military -
However, a revolution spontaneously broke out in Asuncion (14-05-1811), and
the resulting government-held independent. This is how the Republic of Paraguay
was created. -
Colonel José Artigas commanded the revolutionary troops who
defeated the royalists at the Battle of Las Piedras (18-05-1811) and besieged the
walled Montevideo, where the viceregal government had moved. -
in 1813 he liberated Mérida and Caracas in the so-called
Admirable Campaign, cities that gave him the title of "Liberator" -
When Fernando VII returned
to the throne in 1814,
patriotic military campaigns
subsisted in Venezuela and
the Río de la Plata -
In the Aconcagua Valley and although it suffered a serious
defeat in Cancha Rayada (19-03-1818) -
It triumphed in the decisive battle
of Maipú (5-04-1818), assuring the independence of Chile. -
San Martin
sailed from Valparaíso (20-08-1820)
with a fleet of eight warships and 16
transport ships, and 4,500 men from
the armies of the Andes and Chile. -
It disembarked in Pisco (8-09-1820), and forced the realistic army to retreat towards the mountain range.
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Martin (July 5, 1821), and forced the viceroy La Serna to leave the city and enter
the mountains, with an army still very numerous. -
San Martin declared independence (28-07-1821) and was appointed Protector of Peru with full civil and military authority
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In 1823, Bolívar was authorized by the Congress of the Gran Colombia to take command of an expedition to Peru.
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On September 23, 1868, the scream of Lares, of independence against
Spain, was produced. -
Martí dies in one of
the combat actions
(1895), but the revolutionary army continues to fight.
