The First Three Triggers of the Spanish-American Revolution

In the French Revolution, it's impossible to disentangle ourselves from the cataclysmic fall of the Bastille in July 1789. The trigger came three days earlier when Louis the 16th fired controller general Jacques Macare. But none of these first three triggers was premeditated, as I said, most things are improvised on the fly. In Gran Columbia, we can turn to April 1810, when a small group from Spain arrived claiming to represent a Regency Council that other people on board the same ship told the locals didn't really exist.