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The first Junta de Buenos Aires, organized three military campaigns to subdue the Spanish forces in the interior.
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A revolution spontaneously broke out in Asuncion, and the resulting government-held independent. This is how the Republic of Paraguay was created.
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Colonel José Artigas commanded the revolutionary troops who
defeated the royalists at the Battle of Las Piedras and besieged the walled Montevideo, where the viceregal government had moved. -
In 1817, Bolívar, Piar, Páez, and other Venezuelan leaders reactivated the war.
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Bolivar faced and defeated Morillo in Calabozo, in 1818.
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The six columns met less than a month later in the Aconcagua Valley and although it suffered a serious defeat in Cancha Rayada.
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It triumphed in the decisive battle of Maipú (5-04-1818), assuring the independence of Chile.
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Bolívar crossed the Andes and defeated the royalists in the battle of Pantano de Vargas. Which sealed the independence of New Granada.
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San Martin sailed from Valparaíso with a fleet of eight warships and 16 transport ships, and 4,500 men from the armies of the Andes and Chile.
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It disembarked in Pisco (8-09-1820), and forced the realistic army to retreat towards the mountain range.
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The Independence of Guayaquil was proclaimed.
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One more year of skirmishes and Morillo and Bolívar sign the War
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A few months later, the royalist army was defeated in the battle of Carabobo, the final victory of Venezuela's independence.
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The uprising in favor of the independence of the Realista Regiment Numancia -integrated by Venezuelans and Quiteños - opened the doors of Lima to San Martin (July 5, 1821), and forced the viceroy La Serna to leave the city and enter the mountains, with an army still very numerous.
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San Martin declared independence and was appointed Protector of Peru with full civil and military authority.
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The arrival of the patriot army commanded by Antonio José de Sucre, and its triumph in Pichincha (24-05-1822)
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That Bolivar defeated the royalist pastures in the battle of Bomboná, and entered triumphant Quito.
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Surprisingly, San Martin gave Bolivar the initiative of the war completely. He returned to Lima, resigned from the government of Perú.
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San Martín returned to his home in Mendoza, Argentina.
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Discouraged by the death of his wife and the internal fights between Unitarians and Federals, he emigrated to Europe, where he died in 1850.
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The Oriental Republic of Uruguay, fed up with its disappointments with the centralism of Buenos Aires, and after the War with Brazil, it would be established as an independent entity in 1828.
