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We all know something of the saga of the United Empire Loyalists, who had a high rate of exile [proportionately greater I have read than the exiles from France in its revolutionary era] and the UELs became major founder populations in Ontario/Upper Canada and the Canadian Maritimes, while others moved to Britain or the West Indies, while others stayed in place. [And the Floridas I suppose were a temporary, wartime refuge they departed from after 1783]

How did the experience of those loyal to Spain and Portugal during Latin America's wars of independence compare and contrast with the British UEL experience?

Did more stay in place or back to the Iberian mother countries themselves? If expatrated, did Spanish Empire Loyalists cluster in other overseas Spanish possessions like the Philippines or Canaries? Did many Portuguese loyal to the metropolis rather than the empire of Brazil move out? If so, to Portugal itself, or to Portugal's other overseas possessions in the Atlantic, Africa and Asia?
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