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1,000 Africans attacked there masters on August 22, 1771. They waited two weeks to do so. They went to there homes and sliced them up.
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On May 6, 1802 Touissant surrendered and was arrested for comsperincey. Touissant died in a frezzing cell in the mountians, he never got to see liberty in Haiti.
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Padre Miguel Hidalgo a priest took the first step toward independence on 1810. When the peasants gathered in the church, he issued a call for rebellion against the Spanish.
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Bolivar declared it's independence from Spain in 1811. Bolivar's volunteer army of revolutionaries suffered numerous defeats, Twice Bolivar had to go into exile.
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Hidaldo's troops began a march toward Mexico City with 80,000 men. The spanish army defeated Hidalgo in 1811.
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For 14, years, the Portuguese ran their empire from Brazil. After Napoleon defeated in 1815.
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San Martin declared independence in 1816. However, Spanish forces in nearby Chile and Peru still posed a threat.
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In 1817, San Martin led an army on a march from Andes to Chile. In 1821, San Martin planned to drive the remaining Spanish forces out of Lima, Peru. But to do so, he needed a much larger force.
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Simon Bolivar won Venezuela's independence in 1821. He than marched south into Ecuador. In Ecuador, Bolivar finally met Jose de San Martin and together they would decide the future of the Latin American revolutionary movemeny.
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Creoles demanded Brazil's independence from Portugal on September 7, 1822
