"1809 Small Rebellions in the Andes" Topic
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| Tango01 | 14 Sep 2022 9:10 p.m. PST |
"The Napoleonic usurpation of the King of Spain caused a power vacuum that had reverberations in the Americas, however the american people remained surprisingly loyal to the monarchial system. In Spain the usurpation of the King led to the establishment of provincial juntas, which resisted the new Bonaparte king (Napoleon's brother) and maintained that they were acting on behalf of the Spanish King Fernando VII. In 1808 delegations from the juntas of Seville, which considered itself the Supreme Junta of Spain, travelled to the americas to seek collaboration and assert their administrative authority. While the americans were loyal to Fernando VII, they responded less favourably to the authority of the Spanish juntas. This was compounded by disagreements between the Spanish juntas about whether the Junta of Seville had supreme authority…"
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