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To the causes, we must add
the events that precipitated the
independence. Later, he named his brother, José Bonaparte, King of Spain and Napoleon
imprisoned Charles IV and his
son Ferdinand VII and forced
them to abdicate in his favor. -
It began with the proclamation of the Sovereign Boards in 1809.
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carried out three theses:
The rejection of Napoleon's claims of
America, loyalty to Fernando VII and,
most importantly, the illegitimacy of both
Joseph Bonaparte
Quito was to be the first in the history of
Hispano-America to proclaim, a government of its own -
Las autoridades españolas reprimieron ferozmente a la primera de las ciudades en formar una Junta Soberana. Intentaron prevenir el contagio. Los virreyes de Lima y Bogotá envió inmediatamente tropas con la orden de sitiar Quito y no permitir que entre un grano de sal
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Junta of Buenos Aires organized three military campaigns
to subdue the Spanish forces in the interior, but they were unsuccessful -
When Fernando VII returned
to the throne in 1814,
patriotic military campaigns
subsisted in Venezuela and
the Río de la Plata. -
revolution spontaneously broke out in Asunción, and the resulting government remained independent. This is how the Republic of Paraguay was created
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Colonel José Artigas commanded the revolutionary troops that
defeated the royalists at the Battle of Las Piedras -
Simón Bolívar -Member
of the Caraqueña boards of
1811- was named new military
leader, and in 1813 he liberated Mérida and Caracas -
José de San Martín, who imposed the Congress of Tucumán, which
founded the United Provinces of South America -
Morillo soon resumed control of Venezuela and New Granada. But, in 1817
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Aconcagua and although he suffered a serious
defeat at Cancha Rayada -
triumphed in the decisive battle
of Maipú -
Bolívar, Piar, Páez and other Venezuelan leaders reactivated the war. Bolivar
faced and defeated Morillo in Calabozo, in 1818. However, later, Morillo
he counterattacked and defeated Bolívar in the Aragua valley -
So Bolívar
crossed the Andes and defeated the royalists in the battle of Pantano de Vargas. that sealed the independence of New Granada. -
One more year of skirmishes and Morillo and Bolívar sign the War
Regularization Treaty, which ends the "War to the Death" period. -
The
arrival of the patriot army commanded by
Antonio jose de sucre -
Triumph of Antonio José and sucre in pichincha
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Bolívar defeated the realistic grasses in the battle of
Bomboná, and entered Quito triumphantly -
Buenos Aires, and after the War with Brazil 1825
established as an independent entity in 1828. -
Frustrated in their desire for autonomy and free trade, a group of conservative Creoles proclaimed independence.