World History › Section S · Latin American independence › Topic S.3
Independence in Spanish South America
Spanish South America won independence in fifteen years of war fought across deserts, plains and the Andes. Two liberators, Simón Bolívar from the north and José de San Martín from the south, converged on Peru, but their victories depended on people their own class often feared.
In this topic
- Venezuela's First Republic
- War to the death
- Worked example: the Letter from Jamaica
- Haiti, the llaneros and Boyacá
- Gran Colombia's constitution
- Río de la Plata goes its own way
- San Martín and Chile
- Peru and the meeting at Guayaquil
- Worked example: why Peru came last
- What independence changed
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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