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Both the Spanish and Portuguese Empires in the Americas were lost as a result of the Napoleonic Wars. Tough to keep a hold of your empire when your government back home has collapsed. But independence was in the air already, with the American Revolution having succeeded and people like Francisco de Miranda agitating for the same thing in Latin America.

How would these empires have developed, and how long would they have lasted, if for whatever reason Spain and Portugal avoided the disruption of the Napoleonic Wars?
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