Spanish America - The Leander Expedition and the Defence of the Rio De La Plata

The population had shown a resolute ability to defend what was theirs from a foreign invader. This growing local self-assertiveness would feed directly into the great may revolution that would come along in 18 ten. A lot of the guys who fought against the british in 18 o six and 18 o seven would wind up officers in the liberating army of jose de saint martin. And who knows how things may have proceeded, had not the mother country been overtaken by a fatal crisis. Next week we will begin with that fatal crisis, because in 18 o seven, napoleon would march french troops across the pyrenees ostensibly to attack portugal,. But then in early 18 o