The Spanish American wars of independence were a series of conflicts fought across the Spanish Empire in the Americas from 1808 to 1833, beginning shortly after the Peninsular War broke out as part of the wider Napoleonic Wars. Royalists favoring continued unitary rule from Spain fought Patriots who wanted autonomous constitutional monarchies or fully independent republics, drawing support in places from the United Kingdom, the United States and Haiti. The wars ended in Patriot victory and the political fragmentation of Spanish America into a series of new independent states, while Cuba and Puerto Rico remained under Spanish rule until 1898.
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CombatantsRoyalists versus Patriots, with Patriots supported by Britain, the United States and Haiti 1 Classification
Death Toll Min Conflict Type Spanish American Wars of Independence
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25 September 1808
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The increasing irrelevance of the Holy Alliance after 1825 and the fall of the Bourbon dynasty in France in 1830 during the July Revolution eliminated the principal support of Ferdinand VII in Europe, but it was not until the king's death in 1833 that Spain finally abandoned all plans of military reconquest, and in 1836 its government went so far as to renounce sovereignty over all of continental America.
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The conflicts were multilateral, involving factions grouped into two camps: Royalists, who favoured continued Spanish rule, and Patriots, who supported independent monarchies or republics separate from Spain and from one another.
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Patriot victory
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1,000,000 total dead, 600,000 in New Spain, 400,000 in Viceroyalty of New Granada, New Granada
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First, the Spanish Monarchy broke up, beginning in Spain in 1808 with the invasion by the French Empire, the Spanish uprising against the Bonapartes, the vacancy of the throne, and the emergence of juntas later replicated in America.
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