Conflict for Bolivian independence from the Spanish Empire (1809-25)
Bolivian War of Independence
Part of the Spanish American wars of independence
Antonio José de Sucre at the Battle of Ayacucho (9 December 1824)
Date
25 May 1809 – 6 August 1825 (16 years, 2 months, 1 week and 5 days)
Location
Upper Peru (modern Bolivia)
Result
Patriot victory
Independence of Bolivia
Incorporation into Peruvian territory until 1826
Belligerents
Patriots:
Bolivia
Republiquetas
Gran Colombia
Peru
United Provinces
Royalists:
Spain
Viceroyalty of Peru
Commanders and leaders
Simón Bolívar
Andrés de Santa Cruz
Antonio de Sucre
José Balancer
Eustaquio Méndez
José Ballivián
José Manuel Mercado
Pedro A. Olañeta †
José de Goyeneche
Pío de Tristán
Joaquín de la Pezuela
José de la Serna
José María Valdez
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Spanish colonial campaigns
15th century
Canary Islands (1402–96)
Santa Cruz de la Mar Pequeña (1478)
Guinea (1478)
Algeria (1497)
Melilla (1497)
16th century
Algeria (1505)
Algeria (1507)
Morocco (1508)
Algeria (1509)
Algeria (1510)
Tripoli (1510)
Tunisia (1510)
Puerto Rico (1511–29)
Algeria (1516)
Algeria (1517–18)
Mexico (1519–1821)
Mexico (1519–21)
Algeria (1519)
Tunisia (1520)
Chiapas (1523–1695)
Guatemala (1524–1697)
El Salvador (1524–39)
Honduras (1524–39)
Yucatán (1527–1697)
Algeria (1529)
Algeria (1531)
Peru (1532–72)
Tunisia (1534)
Algeria (1535)
Tunisia (1535)
Colombia (1537–40)
Algeria (1541)
Algeria (1543)
Halmahera (1545)
Chile (1546–1662)
Algeria (1547)
Tunisia (1550)
Libya (1551)
Algeria (1555)
Algeria (1556)
Algeria (1558)
Tunisia (1560)
Argentine Northwest (1560–1667)
Algeria (1563)
Philippines (1565–1898)
Florida (1565)
Philippines (1567–72)
Tunisia (1574)
Brunei (1578)
Cambodia (1593–97)
Puerto Rico (1595)
Philippines (1596)
Cuba (1596)
Puerto Rico (1598)
Philippines (1599-1600)
17th century
Philippines (1602)
Tunisia (1605)
Morocco (1614)
Petén (1618–97)
Brazil (1625)
Taiwan (1626)
St. Kitts · Nevis (1629)
Philippines (1630)
Brazil (1631)
Brazil (1638)
Philippines (1638-46)
Brazil (1640)
Taiwan (1641)
Taiwan (1642)
Chiloé · Valdivia (1643)
Philippines (1646)
Tortuga (1654)
Hispaniola (1655)
Jamaica (1655)
Jamaica (1657)
Jamaica (1658)
Panama (1671)
New Mexico (1680–92)
Morocco (1689)
18th century
North America (1702–13)
Chiloé (1712)
Bahamas (1720)
Chile (1723–1726)
Oran (1732)
Banda Oriental (1735–37)
Caribbean and North America (1739–48)
Iberian Peninsula and South America (1762–63)
Portugal (1762)
Banda Oriental and Rio Grande do Sul (1762–63)
Cuba (1762)
Nicaragua (1762)
Philippines (1762)
Chile (1766–1767)
Algiers (1775)
Banda Oriental (1776–1777)
North America (1779–83)
Peru (1780–82)
New Granada (1781)
Algiers (1783)
Algiers (1784)
Chile (1792)
Caribbean (1796–1802)
19th century
Río de la Plata (1806–07)
Spanish America (1808–33)
Bolivia (1809–25)
Argentina (1810–18)
Florida (1810)
Paraguay (1810–11)
Mexico (1810–21)
Peru (1811–24)
El Salvador (1811)
Uruguay (1811)
Venezuela (1811–23)
Chile (1812–27)
Colombia (1815–16)
Colombia (1819–20)
Ecuador (1820–22)
Mexico (1821–29)
Balanguingui (1848)
Cochinchina (1858–62)
Morocco (1859–1860)
Dominican Republic (1863–65)
Peru and Chile (1864–66)
Puerto Rico (1868)
Cuba (1868–78)
Cuba (1879–80)
Morocco (1893–94)
Cuba (1895–98)
Philippines (1896–98)
Puerto Rico (1898)
Guam (1898)
20th century
Morocco (1909)
Morocco (1911–12)
Morocco (1920–26)
Morocco (1957–58)
Western Sahara (1973–76)
Western Sahara (1975)
The Bolivian War of Independence (Spanish: Guerra de Independencia de Bolivia, 1809–1825) began with the establishment of government juntas in Sucre and La Paz, after the Chuquisaca Revolution and La Paz revolution. These Juntas were defeated shortly after, and the cities fell again under Spanish control. The May Revolution of 1810 ousted the viceroy in Buenos Aires, which established its own junta. Buenos Aires sent three large military expeditions to Upper Peru, headed by Juan José Castelli, Manuel Belgrano and José Rondeau, but the royalists ultimately prevailed over each one. However, the conflict grew into a guerrilla war, the War of the Republiquetas, preventing the royalists from strengthening their presence. After Simón Bolívar and Antonio José de Sucre defeated the royalists in northern South America, Sucre led a campaign that was to defeat the royalists in Charcas for good when the last royalist general, Pedro Antonio Olañeta, suffered death and defeat at the hands of his own defected forces at the Battle of Tumusla. Bolivian independence was proclaimed on 6 August 1825.
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