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Bolivar credited them with the victory at the subsequent Battle of Boyacá on August 7, 1819, saying "those soldier-liberators are the men who deserve these laurels" and awarded with the 'Order of the Liberator' one of the rare occasions during the war when this decoration was bestowed onto an entire unit.
Coins were minted in both Spain and Latin America from the 16th to 19th centuries in silver 1 ⁄ 2, 1, 2, 4 and 8 reales nacionales and in gold 1 ⁄ 2, 1, 2, 4 and 8 escudos. The silver 8-real coin was known as the Spanish dollar (as the coin was minted to the specifications of the thaler of the Holy Roman Empire and Habsburg monarchy ), peso ...
A 1783 engraving depicting the exploding magazine On April 22, 1781, the Spanish troops landed under the command of Field Marshal D. Juan Manuel Cagigal, being the Chief of Squadron of the Navy José Solano y Bote future Marquis of Socorro, and of Troops and officers of Navy and Land, of the garrisons of the ships of the squadron of the Navy.
Other minor denominations included 4 reales, 2 reales, 1 real, and 1/2 real. The 8 reales coin is the predecessor to the American dollar . Before the United States Mint was in production, columnarios circulated, along with other coinage, in the US colonies, as legal tender until the middle of the 19th century.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1783 to Spain and its people. Incumbents ... March 2 - Francisco Salzillo, sculptor (b. 1707)
Real cédula authorising the founding of the Royal University of Lima (today San Marcos).. The real cédula (Latin: Regium Diploma; [1] English: royal certificate), also called a real despacho (English: royal dispatch), [2] [3] was, in Spanish law during the ancien régime, a dispatch from the king of Spain, issued by some council or superior court at the request of the king or on his behalf ...
Territorial evolution of North America of non-native nation states from 1750 to 2008The 1763 Treaty of Paris ended the major war known by Americans as the French and Indian War and by Canadians as the Seven Years' War / Guerre de Sept Ans, or by French-Canadians, La Guerre de la Conquête.
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 Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 978-84-95146-36-6; Mitchell, Barbara A. (Autumn 2012). "America's Spanish Savior: Bernardo de Gálvez".