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Most Spanish settlers came to the Indies as permanent residents, established families and businesses, and sought advancement in the colonial system, such as membership of cabildos, so that they were in the hands of local, American-born (crillo) elites. During the Bourbon era, even when the crown systematically appointed peninsular-born ...
Other results include 866,356 (0.4%) identifying as "Spanish" and 50,966 who identified with "Spanish American". [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Many Hispanic and Latino Americans (Hispanos being the oldest group) living in the United States have some Spanish ancestral roots due to four centuries of Spanish colonial settlement and large-scale immigration of ...
The Spanish–American War was a medical disaster for American and Spanish forces. While combat casualties were low, disease took a devastating toll on American troops. The central medical crisis of the war was the typhoid fever epidemic that ravaged military camps.
A 17th–century Dutch map of the Americas. The historiography of Spanish America in multiple languages is vast and has a long history. [1] [2] [3] It dates back to the early sixteenth century with multiple competing accounts of the conquest, Spaniards’ eighteenth-century attempts to discover how to reverse the decline of its empire, [4] and people of Spanish descent born in the Americas ...
The population of the Native American population in Mexico declined by an estimated 90% (reduced to 1–2.5 million people) by the early 17th century. [ citation needed ] In Peru , the indigenous Amerindian pre-contact population of around 6.5 million declined to 1 million by the early 17th century.
The Spanish American wars of independence (Spanish: Guerras de independencia hispanoamericanas) took place across the Spanish Empire in the early 19th century. The struggles in both hemispheres began shortly after the outbreak of the Peninsular War, forming part of the broader context of the Napoleonic Wars.
Spanish Americans are citizens of the United States who were born in Spain, or who are of Spanish descent. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
The wars of independence in Spanish America were triggered by another failed British attempt to seize Spanish American territory, this time in the Río de la Plata estuary in 1806. The viceroy retreated hastily to the hills when defeated by a small British force.