Artigas was a Uruguayan revolutionary who helped launch the Uruguayan Revolution in 1810. The war against Spain would last for years and end in 1818 with Uruguayan independence. in the wake of the war Artigas would help found the Free State of Uruguay.

As part of his successful campaign to gain independence for Uruguay, Artigas would fight to gain independence for Paraguay. Paraguay declared independence at the same time as Uruguay and due to its remote inland position, it faced much less in the way of Spanish attacks. However, it needed to ally itself with Uruguay and Artigas due to the access the Spanish could have to the nation via the Rio Uruguay.

In accordance with the treaty that ended the War of the Sixth Coalition, Napoleon was sent to the small island of Elba. In hopes of keeping him occupied on the island, Napoleon was allowed to keep the title of Emperor despite his abdication from the throne of France, and he was installed as the sovereign of the island. While there he ruled over the island, creating a small army and navy, updated farms, and started iron mines. 

The Latin American Wars of Independence took place from 1809-1825. Within those short 16 years Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and Mexico would all gain their independence. Many of these nations would fight together against the colonial powers to gain their independence only to split apart later.

San Martin was an Argentinean revolutionary. He started the Argentine Revolution in 1810. The war would not end until 1818 with the surrender of the Spanish forces. However, Argentina had created a national constitution and had begun governing in 1816.

The Seven Years War, sometimes known as the French and Indian War, was a massive conflict between nearly all the major powers in Europe for supremacy. In North America, however, the conflict pitted the British and their colonists against the French and their colonists over the St. Lawrence and Ohio River Valleys. The scale of this conflict as well as the length of time it went on for severely depleted the British reserves causing them to raise taxes.

The long and costly war meant the British treasury was severely depleted by wars end. This meant that the British needed to raise taxes, and, since most of the expense of the war was spent sending troops and supplies to defend their various colonies, the British felt that the colonies should bear the brunt of the taxes. The colonists disagreed and felt that the taxes should be shared by all British citizens.

The British made quite a large gain in terms of territory in the wake of the Seven Years War. They gained all of New France, which was the entirety of the St. Lawrence River Valley, as well as all the land east of the Mississippi and north of Florida that they did not already possess.

San Martin was an Argentine Revolutionary. After he successfully led Argentina to independence in 1818 he went across the Andes to help push the Chilean independence movement along. The Chilean movement had stalled after the declaration of independence in 1810 and had turned into a bloody sectarian conflict. The Chilean independence movement would finally succeed in 1826 when the last of the royalist strongholds fell.

Bolivar was the influential leader who served as symbol of resistance to the Spanish throughout the Northern half of South America. His conquests of Venezuela and Colombia inspired the efforts of military leaders throughout Ecuador. He also lent a helping hand to the revolutionaries in the nation as they struggled for independence.