1. Simon Bolivar, Jose de San Martin and Latin Independence
... America were Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin. This Independence Movement was influenced by the new ideas of Europe's Age of Enlightenment, which introduced ideas such as limiting the power of monarchs, and also was probably influenced by the American and French Revolution. The first attempt at Independence occurred in Venezuela where Francisco de Miranda, launched an invasion into the Spanish ... Battle of Boyacá (Greene). He then returned to Angostura and planned to attack the Spanish on the plains of Carabobo. Meanwhile Spain suffered political problems. Ferdinand was forced to ...
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