Latin American wars of independence
1808 – 1824
Revolutionaries across Spanish America fought Spanish royalist forces after Napoleon's invasion of Spain weakened the Crown. By the mid-1820s almost all of mainland Spanish America had become independent.
Battles 1
January 9, 1822 – March 8, 1824
Brazilian War of Independence
Independentist victory
Brazil
Pedro I of Brazil, Luís do Rego Barreto, Thomas Cochrane
