WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Haitian Revolution was directly inspired by the French Revolution. Haiti, then known as Saint-Domingue, was a French colony with a large slave population. On the night of 21 August 1791, slaves across the colony rose in armed revolt and began attacking their white slave owners.

Detailed explanation-2: -The American War of Independence heavily influenced the Latin American liberation movement. However, the US began to expand its imperial interests in Central and Latin America.

Detailed explanation-3: -Simón Bolivar is remembered today as the greatest leader of South American independence. Highly influenced by the examples of the United States, the French Revolution and Napoleon, he led a massive revolt against Spanish colonial rule in South America, beginning in 1810.

Detailed explanation-4: -Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín were both called “the Liberator.” They are unquestionably Latin America’s two greatest heroes of the wars for independence, 1810 1824. Yet in Bolívar’s case, the title rang across the continent. San Martín was highly admirable-idealistic, conscientious, and persistent.

Detailed explanation-5: -Inspired by the idea of liberty, revolutionaries fought against aristocratic and colonial rule. They sparked the Haitian Revolution of 1791, the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and revolutionary wars in Latin America. More closely linked were the upheavals of 1848.