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Rebellions against the Spanish Empire

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Túpac Amaru II
leader of a large Andean uprising against the Spanish in Peru (1738-1781)
Philippine Revolution
1896–1898 conflict against Spanish colonial authorities
Spanish American wars of independence
1808–1833 armed conflicts in the Americas between Spain and independence movements
Cuban War of Independence
armed conflict between the United States, Cuba and Spain
Ten Years' War
armed conflict in Cuba between 1868 and 1878
Túpac Katari
indigenous Aymara leader of a major insurrection in colonial-era Upper Peru
Battle of Annual
1921 battle during the Rif War
decolonization of the Americas
process by which the countries in the Americas gained their independence from European rule
Little War
armed conflict in Cuba between 1878 and 1880
Dominican Restoration War
1863–1865 war between the Dominican Republic and Spain
Juan Santos Atahualpa
Peruvian Inca rebel
Mexican Indian Wars
armed conflicts between indigenous peoples and people of the Vice royalty of New Spain in Mexico, between 1519 and 1933
Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II
uprising of native and mestizo peasants against the Bourbon reforms in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru
Chichimeca War
16th-century war between the Spanish Empire and indigenous peoples of Mexico
Revolt of the Comuneros
revolt in New Granada (modern Colombia) from 1781
Conquest of Chile
period of Chilean history, 1541-1600, period of Spanish conquest
Revolt of the Comuneros
series of uprisings by settlers in Paraguay (1721-1735)
Revolt of Ghent
1540
Tamblot
Tamblot ( 1621–1622) was the name given to a babaylan (a Visayan term for mediums and religious leaders in the Philippines' pre-colonial and early colonial periods) who incited a series of uprisings against Spanish colonial rule in the island of Bohol. Indigenous religions and beliefs played a huge part behind the revolts' inception as Roman Catholicism spread throughout the Philippine archipelago, a process which many of its inhabitants rejected in favor of their local customs. A few uprisings in the early colonial era such as this one were thus motivated in part by resistance against the pre
Battle of Abarrán
battle between Spanish and Riffian troops in Dhar Ubarran, Morocco
Siege of Ighriben
siege during the Battle of Annual (1921)
Louisiana Rebellion of 1768
unsuccessful attempt by Creole and German settlers around New Orleans, Louisiana to stop the handover of the French Louisiana Territory, as had been stipulated in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, to Spain in 1762
Creole nationalism
political ideology spread among the descendants of European colonists in Latin America, defending their rights, including independence