Название: The Wars of Spanish American Independence 1809–29
Автор: John Fletcher
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1782007660
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 96
Размер: 18,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin independently led the South American revolutionary armies that freed much of Latin America of Spanish rule.
In 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte treacherously outmaneuvered the corrupt Spanish Bourbons and installed his brother Joseph as King of Spain, igniting the flames of war across the Iberian Peninsula. Far across the Atlantic, this event lit the fuse for a war that raged for the better part of two decades as Spain's colonies grasped the opportunity to seize their own independence.