THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
THE MONROE DOCTRINE
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Miguel Hidalgo
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Simon Bolivar
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Toussaint L’Ouverture
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Jose de San Martin
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Detailed explanation-1: -Toussaint Louverture led a successful slave revolt and emancipated the slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti). A formidable military leader, he turned the colony into a country governed by former black slaves as a nominal French protectorate and made himself ruler of the entire island of Hispaniola .
Detailed explanation-2: -As a general, Toussaint led his forces to victory over the planter class-and thousands of invading French troops.
Detailed explanation-3: -Following the indigenous Tainos’ near decimation from forced labor, disease and war, the Spanish, under initial advisement of the Catholic priest Bartolomé de las Casas and with the blessing of the Catholic church, began engaging in earnest during the 17th century in the forced labor of enslaved Africans.