by Strong Americas | Aug 10, 2026
Dominica’s path to independence was gradual, following a British colonial history quite different from the more turbulent departures experienced by some of its Caribbean neighbors. The island became a British colony in 1763 and was administered for much of the...
by Strong Americas | Aug 10, 2026
Cuba’s independence movement developed over three decades of intermittent warfare against Spanish colonial rule, distinguishing it from the swifter transitions experienced by much of Spanish America earlier in the nineteenth century. Discontent over high...
by Strong Americas | Aug 10, 2026
Costa Rica’s separation from Spanish rule in the early nineteenth century unfolded with unusual calm compared with the prolonged conflicts that marked independence elsewhere in Spanish America. As a remote and sparsely populated province within the Captaincy...
by Strong Americas | Aug 10, 2026
The struggle to end Spanish rule over what is now Colombia unfolded as part of a broader wave of revolutions across the Viceroyalty of New Granada in the early nineteenth century. Local juntas began asserting autonomy after Napoleon’s occupation of Spain...
by Strong Americas | Aug 10, 2026
Chile’s independence movement emerged from the broader crisis of Spanish colonial authority triggered by Napoleon Bonaparte’s 1808 invasion of Spain. With the legitimacy of the crown in doubt, Santiago’s criollo elite convened an open town council,...
