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  2. History of Ecuador - Wikipedia

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    Ecuador became independent initially as part of the Republic of Gran Colombia, before finally breaking away in 1830. Ecuador would endure a period of civil war until the mid nineteenth century after which it would be dominated by caudillos, alternatively conservative and liberal. In the twentieth and twenty first centuries Ecuador would ...

  3. Ecuador - Wikipedia

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    Before the arrival of the Spaniards, the Inca Empire was involved in a civil war. The untimely death of both the heir Ninan Cuyochi and the Emperor Huayna Capac, from a European disease that spread into Ecuador, created a power vacuum between two factions and led to a civil war. [35]

  4. History of Ecuador (1830–1860) - Wikipedia

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    Ecuador in 1830 General Juan José Flores, the first President of Ecuador. Independence did not bring revolutionary liberation to the masses of Ecuadorian peasants. On the contrary, as bad as the peasants' situation had been, it probably worsened with the loss of the Spanish royal officials who had protected the indigenous population against the abuses of the local criollo elite.

  5. List of wars involving Ecuador - Wikipedia

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    Ecuador Peru: Defeat [2] Advance of Ecuadorian troops in Peruvian territory in the area of the Aguarico river and Napo river until their subsequent expulsion, taking of prisoners and captured war material. War of the Generals (1911–1912) Supporters of Eloy Alfaro: Opponents of Eloy Alfaro Anti-Alfaro victory: Ecuadorian Civil War of 1913 ...

  6. Military history of Ecuador - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of the Battle of Guayaquil, the final battle of the Ecuadorian Civil War.. By 1859 the nation was on the brink of anarchy and was marked by the Ecuadorian–Peruvian War of 1857–1860 Guayaquil's Guillermo Franco, had declared several regions autonomous and signed the Treaty of Mapasingue, ceding the southern provinces of Ecuador to an occupying.

  7. Ecuadorian War of Independence - Wikipedia

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    The Ecuadorian War of Independence, part of the Spanish American wars of independence of the early 19th century, was fought from 1809 to 1822 between Spain and several South American armies over control of the Real Audiencia of Quito, a Spanish colonial jurisdiction which later became the modern Republic of Ecuador. The war ended with the ...

  8. Ecuadorian–Peruvian War (1857–1860) - Wikipedia

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    However, in September 1860, the forces of the provisional government, commanded by García Moreno and General Juan José Flores defeated Franco's government at the Battle of Guayaquil, ending the civil war in Ecuador. The new government disavowed the Treaty of Mapasingue, followed shortly afterwards by its Peruvian counterpart; this re-opened ...

  9. Military history of South America - Wikipedia

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    When Ecuador refused, war broke out. The Peruvian navy moved quickly to blockade the entire Ecuadorian coast and their army moved in and occupied Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city and port. With little other option, Ecuador signed the Treaty of Mapasingue, declaring the cession null and settling the border dispute in Peru's favour.