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Napoleon's armies invaded both spain and Portugal.
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Padre Miguel Hidalgo a priest in the small village of Dolores, took the first step towards independence.
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Simon Bolivar decalared Venezula's independences from spain.
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A army of 80,000 men who feared the loss of their property, control of the land, and their life. The army defeated Hidalgo.
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After Napoleon's defeat, King John and the Portugese government returned to Portugal six years later.
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San Martin's Argentina Had declared its independences, even though spanish forces in nearby Chile and Peru still posed a threat.
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Bolivar had won Venezuela's independence from spain and together they would decde the future of the Latin American Revolutionary movement.
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Sanmartin planned to drive remaining spanish forces out of Lima, Peru. In the last major battle of the war for independence, the spanish colonies in Latin America won their freedom.
