Wars of Independence in Spanish America

This volume of readings examines the revolutions, civil wars, guerrilla struggles, insurgencies, counter-insurgencies, and interventions of this period. Offering a solid perspective on the Independence period, The Wars of Independence is an excellent text for Latin American survey courses and courses focusing on the colonial era.

Preface

xi

I The Origins: Revolt, Insurrection, Uprising, and Reaction

Introduction: Setting the Scene for an Age of Warfare

3

(40)

Christon I. Archer

Popular Insurrection and Royalist Reaction: Colombian Regions, 1810--1823

43

(32)

Brian R. Hamnett

II Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in New Spain

Jose Nemesio Vazquez: An Insurgent Courier, 1812--1816

75

(12)

Virginia Guedea

Political-Military Regulations That Must Be Observed, New Spain, 1811

87

(6)

Felix Calleja

The War of Independence in Guerrero, New Spain, 1808--1821

93

(48)

Peter F. Guardino

An Update for the Minister of War on the Military Occurrences of the Kingdom of New Spain During the Month of March 1818

141

(22)

Viceroy Juan Ruiz De Apodaca

III Caudillismo, War, and Insurgency in South America

The Commencement of the Revolution in Venezuela

163

(16)

Major George Flinter

Aspects of the Civil State of the Castas of Venezuela That Shall Be the Object of Improvement of Prevent Potential Ills and Unrest, 1815

179

(8)

Jose De Cevallos

Two Opposing Views of Simon Bolivar

187

(26)

General Daniel Florencio O'Leary

General H. L. V. Ducoudray Holstein

Pablo Morillo, the War, and the Riego Revolt

213

(30)

Stephen K. Stoan

The Guayaquil Conference and Bolivar's Relations with Peru, 1822

243

(16)

General Daniel Florencio O' Leary

IV The Defeat of Spain in the Americas

Chaos and the Military Solution: The Fall of Royalist Peru

259

(24)

Timothy E. Anna

``A Grave for Europeans''? Disease, Death, and the Spanish-American Revolutions

283

(16)

Rebecca Earle

The Spanish Army and the Loss of America, 1810--1824

299

(22)

Margaret L. Woodward

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