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=**Independence and Nationalism in the Spanish Empire**=

The Spanish Empire before all of the independence

Spanish Empire has always been known to be remarkable for many conquests, discoveries, but most of all it’s vast empire. But everything has to be lead to the end, but how did it happen? How did one of the biggest empires in history die out?

 One of Spain's Wars

T he first big ‘country’ Spain lost in about the 19th century was the big Louisiana State. Napoleon, on behalf of the french, took it in the 18th century. In the 1800’s the french pushed back the spanish fleet at the battle of trafalgar. Napoleon’s empire drastically lowered spain’s communication with it’s own empire. Civil was erupted within the empire, it wanted a republic.

Cuba's Independence

The civil war in South America were led by the British’s war’s to get the Spanish American land in the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata in 1806. When locally born colonial of european decent, defeated the British, they were pushed to gain independence from the spanish empire. Many wars were triggered, mainly in Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and many more. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla began rooting for mexican independance, which was reached in 1821.

Santo Domingo broke off from the empire. Only Cuba and Puerto Rico was in the hands of the weak spanish. The Post Napoleanic era had many wars, causing instability to the spanish’s development. At increasing levels of nationalism, the Spanish-American war in 1898, the weak spanish lost against america, followed by the liberation of Cuba and the sale of puerto rico, philippines, and guam to the US for about 20 million dollars. Spain sold her possesions in the Pacific Ocean to Germany, left only it’s african territories.



The spanish empire lost all of it’s territory from nationalism to nationalism. The countries had revolutions to revolutions. The places took insparation from other declines, making the Spanish Empire fall to pieces. The Spanish empire wasn’t organized, and let it’s own empire crumble under it’s thrown.

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