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Toussaint L'Ouverture
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Haitian military and political leader who led a successful slave insurrection (1791-1793) and helped the French expel the British from Haiti (1798). In 1801 he invaded Spanish Santo Domingo and freed the slaves there. He briefly maintained control over the entire island, establishing the first Black-led government in the Americas, before being arrested by Bonapartist agents (1802) and deported to France.
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Simon Bolivar
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Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule; founded Bolivia in 1825 (1783-1830)
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Jose de San Martin
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was an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern part of South America's successful struggle for independence from Spain.
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Peninsulares
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the people who were the top of Spanish American society, men who had been born in Spain
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