Sunrise over the Silver River

Welcome to the Portal page for Sunrise of the Silver River This timeline explores the world after Napoleons invasion and subsequent occupation of Spain spurs the onset of the Spanish American Wars of Independence, the most important being the ones in Rio de la Plata and Mexico. The idea here is to make this a dynamic and well versed project to help with my own writing and world building and for the enjoyment of many here.

Intorduction
The Point of Divergence is 1808-1809 timeframe (given time and distance to travel). The quick actions of patriots in many Spanish colonies, would have far reaching and deep implications across much of the Americas.

In our Timeline, the Colonies of Spain were unsure of what to do following the occupation of Spain by Napoleon, spent years in limbo looking for direction and with simmering patriot movements slowly gaining steam culminating in the collective wars of independence in all of Spains mainland North and South American colonies.

The slow burn of patriot movements and key royalist movements in Peru led many except New Granada under Simon Bolivar to remain loyal to Spain for the time being as they initially supported King Ferdinand of Spain over Napoleons brother, King Joseph of Spain the 'Usurper' who had been widely rejected all across Spain and now her colonies.

The result of this slow burn of Patriots, and the key positions and territory held by royalists prolonged the Spanish American wars of independence for 11 years, sowing distrust, dissent, and permanent fissures in many of the territories across two continents.

This timeline brings about the results of a mass rejection of Spain's colonial rule, and her king, bringing nearly all of the wars of independence together into one massive war that spanned from 1808 to 1821 in totality as Spain initially was unable to respond, and then with her reconstitution marshalled armies to retake her colonies spurring the war into one of royalists vs patriots to a desperate struggle of patriots vs the brutal Spanish armies attempting to subjugate the colonies once again.

Following the occupation of Spain by France in 1808 and the forcing of Joseph Bonaparte onto the throne of Spain, the Spanish population rejected the pretender en masse and rose up to protest and many riots took place. However nearly 500-600 people were killed in Madrid as the French attempted to restore control. News taking much time to travel and with the Spanish royal family missing in action, the information arriving of the fall of Spain came as a massive shock and in the aristocracy of all the colonies a massive uproar was felt as many were unsure of what to do. Across Spanish America groups of Patriots advocating republics or constitutional monarchies coalesced and after much deliberation finally by 1810 and some correspondance with each-other unlikely alliances across Spanish America resulted in the April Patriot revolutions of 1810 as thousands in New Granada, Peru, New Spain, and Rio de la Plata rose up

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