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José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras was a soldier and politician from the River Plate and one of the liberators of Argentina, Chile and Peru.
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Quito was the first in the history of
Spanish America to proclaim, on August 10, 1809, a government of its own. -
The troops of Bogota and Lima after they ocuped the city of Quito, They murdered 300 patriots and citizens.
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The first Junta of Buenos Aires (05-251810) organized three military campaigns to subdue the Spanish forces in the interior, but they were not successful. However, a revolution spontaneously broke out in Asunción (05-14-1811), and the resulting government remained independent. This is how the Republic of Paraguay.
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In the Banda Oriental, the rural population rebelled against the Spanish authorities in
Montevideo. Colonel José Artigas commanded the revolutionary troops that.
He defeated the royalists in the Battle of Las Piedras (05-18-1811) and besieged Walled Montevideo, where the viceregal government had moved. -
Chile proclaimed itself independent.
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Acrossed the Andes, in Pantano de Vargas battle, the independence of new Granada was sealed.
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The independence of guayaquil
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A Venezuelan's victory in the battle of Carabobo gave Venezuela its independence.
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San Martin declares the independence.
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Chiapas, Soconusco, El Salvador,
Honduras, Nicaragua, Los Altos, and Costa Rica declared its independence
from the Spanish Crown and, shortly after, annexed Mexico to
defend itself better from Spain. One year later, Guatemala and its provinces
formed an independent state, of federal character, with the name of United
Provinces of the Center of America, being its capital city of Guatemala. -
Priest Miguel Hidalgo was placed in
in front of the Indians and peasants and thrown, as we saw, the "cry of independence "in thetown of Dolores.
got triumphs with his army and occupied several cities in Mexico, but was defeated in Guadalajara and executed by the royalist authorities in 1811.
Later it was commanded by the priest José Maria Morelos, who led the second stage of the revolution (1811-1815). later a group of conservative creoles proclaimed independence in 1821 -
Quito was a political process started in 1809 by which the former captaincy general of Quito would become the Republic of Ecuador. .
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The Independence of Brazil comprises a series of political events that occurred between 1821 and 1824, most of which included conflicts between Brazil and Portugal. Thus giving way to the proclamation of independence presented by the Empire of Brazil on September 7, 1822.
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The battles of Junín and Ayacucho took place, culminating in the capitulation of the royalist army and the end of the Viceroyalty of Peru.
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Spain recognized the independence of Mexico.
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Liberation movements began in Cuba in the mid-19th century, in 1848.
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El Grito de Lares was an armed insurrection that occurred on September 23, 1868 that sought the independence of Puerto Rico from the colonial government of Spain.
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Juan VI returned to Portugal, leaving his son
Pedro de Braganza as governor of Brazil, but the following year he proclaimed himself emperor of Brazil. In 1831 he abdicated and was succeeded by his son, Pedro II, who reigned until 1889 when the first
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José Martí organized the Cuban Revolutionary Party. Martí died in one of the combat actions (1895), but the revolutionary army.
In 1898, after the explosion of the battleship Maine in the port of Havana, he declared war on Spain. The intervention of the United States precipitated the Spanish defeat after those events. Cuba proclaimed its independence in 1899, although it suffered.
