Militares y militantes políticos: el actuar de los napoleónicos en la construcción republicana en América latina durante la independencia (1810-1835)

Abstract

Discovering the presence of numerous military and Napoleonic agents during the independence of Latin America and verifying that, beyond their military roles, they played remarkable roles in debates and construction of new societies, which support the elaboration of liberal republics. They achieved this from the prestige given by their military skills, and they used a series of complementary strategies to obtain it: public debate, creation and management of newspapers, development of educational systems, and a sense of belonging to intellectual movements such as masonry.