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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
Spanish men and women settled in greatest numbers where there were dense indigenous populations and the existence of valuable resources for extraction. [1] The Spanish Empire claimed jurisdiction over the New World in the Caribbean and North and South America, with the exception of Brazil, ceded to Portugal by the Treaty of Tordesillas. Other ...
Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War, a 1999 television documentary from PBS; The Spanish–American War: First Intervention, a 2007 docudrama from The History Channel; Baler, a 2008 film about the Siege of Baler; Los últimos de Filipinas ("The Last Ones of the Philippines"), a 1945 Spanish biographical film directed by Antonio Román ...
In the eighteenth century, there were several Spanish-born as well as American-born priests practicing science. Prominent among them was Spanish-born José Celestino Mutis in New Granada, who headed the royal botanical expedition to New Granada. He was educated in mathematics, astronomy, and medicine. Mutis trained Francisco José de Caldas.