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Jul 20, 2017 · Some characterized it as a key event in forging colonial unity while others preferred to distance the Revolution from what they considered a disorderly riot. In either case, Attucks’s role and racial identity remained largely ignored, even among African Americans.
- Papal Bull Inter Caetera and The Treaty of Tordesillas
- The Conquest of The Aztec and Inca Empires
- Independence from Spain and Portugal
- The Mexican-American War
- The War of The Triple Alliance
- The War of The Pacific
- The Construction of The Panama Canal
- The Mexican Revolution
- The Cuban Revolution
- Operation Condor
Many people do not know that when Christopher Columbus "discovered" the Americas, they already legally belonged to Portugal. According to previous papal bulls of the 15th century, Portugal held claim to any and all undiscovered lands west of a certain longitude. After Columbus' return, both Spain and Portugal laid claims to the new lands, forcing t...
After the New World was discovered, Spain soon realized that it was an incredibly valuable resource that should be pacified and colonized. Only two things stood in their way: the mighty Empires of the Aztecs in Mexico and the Incas in Peru, who would have to be defeated in order to establish rule over the newly-discovered lands. Ruthless conquistad...
Using the Napoleonic invasion of Spain as an excuse, most of Latin America declared independence from Spain in 1810. By 1825, Mexico, Central America, and South America were free, soon to be followed by Brazil. Spanish rule in the Americas ended in 1898 when they lost their final colonies to the United States following the Spanish-American War. Wit...
Still smarting from the loss of Texas a decade before, Mexico went to war with the United Statesin 1846 after a series of skirmishes on the border. The Americans invaded Mexico on two fronts and captured Mexico City in May of 1848. As devastating as the war was for Mexico, the peace was worse. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgoceded California, Nevada...
The most devastating war ever fought in South America, the War of the Triple Alliance, pitted Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil against Paraguay. When Uruguay was attacked by Brazil and Argentina in late 1864, Paraguay came to its aid and attacked Brazil. Ironically, Uruguay, then under a different president, switched sides and fought against its forme...
In 1879, Chile and Bolivia went to war after spending decades bickering over a border dispute. Peru, which had a military alliance with Bolivia, was drawn into the war as well. After a series of major battles at sea and on land, the Chileans were victorious. By 1881 the Chilean army had captured Lima and by 1884 Bolivia signed a truce. As a result ...
The completion of the Panama Canalby Americans in 1914 marked the end of a remarkable and ambitious feat of engineering. The results have been felt ever since, as the canal has drastically changed worldwide shipping. Less known are the political consequences of the canal, including the secessionof Panama from Colombia (with the encouragement of the...
A revolution of impoverished peasants against an entrenched wealthy class, the Mexican Revolution shook the world and forever altered the trajectory of Mexican politics. It was a bloody war, which included horrific battles, massacres and assassinations. The Mexican Revolutionofficially ended in 1920 when Alvaro Obregón became the last general stand...
When Fidel Castro, his brother Raúl and a ragged band of followers attacked the barracks at Moncada in 1953, they may not have known they were taking the first step to one of the most significant revolutions of all time. With the promise of economic equality for all, the rebellion grew until 1959, when Cuban President Fulgencio Batista fled the cou...
In the mid-1970s, the governments of the southern cone of South America—Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and Uruguay—had several things in common. They were ruled by conservative regimes, either dictators or military juntas, and they had a growing problem with opposition forces and dissidents. They, therefore, established Operation Condo...
Crispus was three times Roman consul, for the years 318, 321, and 324. According to the Latin histories of Ammianus Marcellinus and Aurelius Victor, after a trial whose real circumstances are mysterious, Constantine executed Crispus at Pola in 326.
Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust (/ ˈ s æ l ə s t /, SAL-əst; 86 – c. 35 BC), [1] was a historian and politician of the Roman Republic from a plebeian family. Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust became a partisan of Julius Caesar (100 to 44 BC), circa 50s BC.
Oct 28, 2011 · The author analyzes the ways in which Latin American writers preserve the particularities of “original” popular cultures while employing the aesthetic resources of North American and European avant-gardes.
This sweeping overview provides an excellent introduction to some of the main themes of in Latin American food history, from the late 19th century to the present. Pite, Rebekah E., and Ana Ramirez Luhrs.
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very much a part of the milieu in Latin America in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, the era of discontent marked by profound cri tiques of Latin America's deeply entrenched historical inheritance.
