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TIL South American independences were planned by Thomas Maitland, the Maitland Plan consisted on capturing Buenos Aires and Chile, and then emancipate Peru and Quito. It was not employed by Britain but José de San Martín who was introduced to the plan, he would "liberate" great part of the continent

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