no 1806-07 British invasions of Buenos Aires

How would the process of independence for Buenos Aires and many other locations in Spanish South America have been altered if both the 1806 and 1807 British attacks on Buenos Aires had been cancelled before they would proceed? Would the porteños not have been as quick in claiming independence from Spain, given that it was the act of repelling both attacks that gave the impetus for the porteños to at least contemplate independence?
 
Or alternatively, would the porteños have woken up to the idea of independence from Spain only from 1810, when they definitively found out about Spain's 1808 takeover by Napoleon's brother, rather than in 1806-07 as OTL?
 
How would the process of independence for Buenos Aires and many other locations in Spanish South America have been altered if both the 1806 and 1807 British attacks on Buenos Aires had been cancelled before they would proceed? Would the porteños not have been as quick in claiming independence from Spain, given that it was the act of repelling both attacks that gave the impetus for the porteños to at least contemplate independence?

I can only imagine it would have slowed down the process. Still, the rebellion was inevitable.
 
Perhaps the patriot rebellion in Buenos Aires, without the 1806-07 British invasions, would have started around the same time as, say, in Chile - later in 1810?
 
repelling the invasions certainly gave a boost to local thoughts of independence, but it wasn't the whole boost. the area was ripe for an independence movement, both in local sentiment, and distance from the loyalist stronghold (peru).

With Spain being invaded, and it appearing that Spain was going to be a puppet state of France, ruled by a Bonaparte, I think revolution goes on in the same time frame. details will change.
 
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