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In 1819, the Treaty of Florida was signed between Spain and the United States, and Spain ceded all of Florida to the United States. In 1811, the Spanish crushed the San Antonio (Texas) revolt during the revolution against the royalists in the Mexican War of Independence. The remaining rebels then turned to the United States for help.
The United States recognizes the independence of the former Spanish colonies; Bolívar and San Martin meet at Guayaquil; San Martin resigns from power in Peru and leaves Lima; Antonio José de Sucre defeats the royalists at the Battle of Pichincha; Ecuador joins Gran Colombia; Agustín de Iturbide is proclaimed Emperor of Mexico, under the name ...
Embassy of Spain: United States of America. Harvey, Robert (2004). A Few Bloody Noses: The American Revolutionary War. Robinson. ISBN 1-84119-952-4. Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence, 1763-1848 / Legado: España y los Estados Unidos en la era de la Independencia, 1763-1848. Catalogue of an Exhibition at the National ...
The conflict had its roots in the worsening socio-economic and military position of Spain after the Peninsular War, the growing confidence of the United States as a world power, a lengthy independence movement in Cuba and a nascent one in the Philippines, and strengthening economic ties between Cuba and the United States.
More permanent, much larger territories were established in New Mexico and California, with a few in Texas and Arizona, forming part of the colonial history of the United States. Although the Spanish elements in the history of the United States were mostly ignored by American historians in the decades after independence, the concept of the ...
Works about the Spanish American wars of independence (2 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Spanish American wars of independence" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total.
The Guayaquil conference (1822) between Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín, the greatest libertadores (liberators) of Spanish America.. Libertadores (Spanish pronunciation: [liβeɾtaˈðoɾes] ⓘ, "Liberators") were the principal leaders of the Spanish American wars of independence from Spain and of the movement in support of Brazilian independence from Portugal.
The history of Hispanics and Latinos in the United States is wide-ranging, spanning more than four hundred years of American colonial and post-colonial history. Hispanics (whether criollo, mulatto, afro-mestizo or mestizo) became the first American citizens in the newly acquired Southwest territory after the Mexican–American War , and ...