Spanish American wars of independence

The wars of Spanish-American independence were a series of military campaigns that took place in the Americas between 1809 and 1825, which resulted in the creation of more than a dozen republics in the territories that had previously been part of the Hispanic monarchy. during the early 19th century, with the aim of political independence from Spanish rule. Struggles for sovereignty in both hemispheres began shortly after the outbreak of the Peninsular War as a front in the larger Napoleonic Wars, between royalists who favored a unitary monarchy, and patriots who favored either plural monarchies or republics.Thus, the strict period of military campaigns would go from the Battle of Chacaltaya (1809), in present-day Bolivia, to the Battle of Tampico (1829) in Mexico. Events in Spanish America transpired in the wake of the successful Haitian Revolution and transition to independence in Brazil. Brazil's independence in particular shared a common starting point with that of Spanish America, since both conflicts were triggered by Napoleon's invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, which forced the Portuguese royal family to flee to Brazil in 1807.

Spanish American wars of independence
Part of the Atlantic Revolutions,the Decolonization of the Americas, and the Napoleonic Wars
From left to right, top to bottom: the Congress of Chilpancingo (1813), the Congress of Cúcuta (1821), the Crossing of the Andes (1817), the extent of the Spanish Empire on the eve of the conflict in 1810, according to the Cortes de Cádiz
Date 25 September 1808 – 29 September 1833 Template:Nwr Location Spanish America Result Patriot victory Territorial changes Disintegration of Spanish America List Bolivia Chile Template:Country data Gran ColombiaTemplate:Country data Gran Colombia Venezuela Template:Country data United Provinces of New Granada Ecuador First Mexican Empire Mexico Insurgents Army of the Three Guarantees Template:Country data United Provinces of Central America Template:Country data Protectorate of PeruPeru Maynas Template:Country data United Provinces of the Río de la PlataTemplate:Country data United Provinces of the Río de la Plata Template:Country data Independence of Paraguay Template:Country data Republic of West Florida (annexed by United States) Diplomatic recognition in 1821 (Portugal), 1822 (US) and 1825 (UK). Spain retained the islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico until the Spanish–American War of 1898. Banda Oriental and Spanish Texas become part of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves and First Mexican Empire respectively.
Participants
Patriots Indigenous allies United Kingdom (1815–1819) United States (1810–1819) Haiti	Spanish Empire Indigenous allies
Units involved
Template:Country data United Provinces of the Río de la Plata Armed forces of Chile Armed forces of Gran Colombia Armed forces of Mexico Armed forces of Peru Orientals forces Republican Army of the North	Spanish Army Spanish Navy
Strength
Unknown 6,500 British Legions	30,000 Spanish soldiers deployed
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown Majority of 30,000 Spanish expeditionary forces dead
600,000 total dead

Template:Campaignbox Spanish colonial campaigns