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Yes, but not directly. Peru was a Spanish colony from the times of Pizarro's conquest of the Incas (1533). It was one of the last bastions of Spanish authority in South America. Because of the power of the upper class in the country, it was liberated by outside armies: those of Jose de San Martin from Argentina and Bernardo O'Higgins from Chile. A week after the occupation of Lima by San Martin, independence was declared on July 28, 1821. It was another 4 years before "Alto Peru" (Bolivia) was seized from the Spanish loyalists in 1825.

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