The Revolutions Podcast - Part 2

In 17 89, the french revolution came along and upended everything in the atlantic world. It certainly threw spain into a crisis period that would see them defeated by the french in 17 95. And as we know from our series on the revolutions down in south america, it was theabd tions of bayon that really triggered the massive wave of independence movements there. Next week, we will pick up that thread in new spain, where, after a couple years of political uncertainty, there was a growing expectation among the creolo that independence in theAmericas would be the logical ult of all this. An expectation that was finally given voice by father hidalgo when