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How Did Loyalty to a Captive King Create New Sovereignties? - From Oaths of Allegiance to Autonomous Juntas | Sleepy Facts About History
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In May of 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte lured the Spanish king and his heir to Bayonne and forced them both to renounce their thrones. Within weeks, an empire stretching from Madrid to Mexico City, and from Barcelona to Buenos Aires, faced a question its laws had never anticipated: who governs when the king himself is a prisoner? This episode examines the constitutional crisis that rippled across the Spanish world and inadvertently set the stage for Spanish American independence.
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