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event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed.
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Toussaint Louverture began his military career as a leader of the 1791 slave rebellion in the French colony of Saint-Domingue; he was by then a free man.
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The Haitian Revolution has often been described as the largest and most successful slave rebellion in the Western Hemisphere.
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The coronation of Napoleon as Emperor of the French, he crowned himself emperor
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August 10, 1809- Ecuador wins independence from Spain
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Venezuela gains independence from Spain
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Colombia gains independence from Spain
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The Mexican War of Independence was an armed conflict and the culmination of a political and social process which ended the rule of Spain in 1821 in the territory of New Spain.
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Chile declared independence
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Argentina won its independence
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Peru proclaimed its independence from Spain
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Mexico wins the war against Spain and gains independence
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Bolivia founded independence from Spain
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Young Italy starts under the leadership of Guisseppi Mazzini, Mazzini wrote a letter to King Charles Albert of Sardinia, in which he asked him to unite Italy and lead the nation.
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the customs union of German states in the 19th century that managed tariffs
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Victor Emmanuel II is given the crown and now controls all of Italy.
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Camillo Cavour is given the title of prime minister of Italy
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The Sardinians teamed up with France and Britan against Russia. Sardinia gained a voice in the peace conference.
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May 5, 1860- Garibaldi had collected 1,089 volunteers(red shirts) for his expedition to Sicily
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In 1862, Bismark returned to Prussia and was appointed prime minister by the new king, Wilhelm I.
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Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck delivered his famous "Blood and Iron" speech at a meeting of the budget commission of the Prussian Parliament
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when Prussian forces crossed the border into Schleswig. The war ended with the treaty of Vienna
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Austro-Prussian war starts for who would control German states. Prussia won the war and won control of German states.
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a conflict between the Second French Empire and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. Prussia won the war.
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the German nation that existed from the Unification of Germany in 1871 until the renunciation of Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1918. It was founded in 1871 when the south German states, except for Austria, joined the North German Confederation.