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This mostly anti-Spanish nationalism allowed creoles to fight for independence but keep the social hierarchy more or less intact.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

As anti-Spanish independence fervor gripped Mexico in the early 19th century, some feared that independistas would desecrate the remains.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2021

Although the anti-Spanish proposal came to nothing, the Moroccan ambassador sailed in an English fleet later that year that attacked Lisbon with the support of the Moroccan ruler, Mulay Ahmed al-Mansur.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2016

A novelist turned historian, she tells Bolívar's story wonderfully, though specialists have noted factual errors and anti-Spanish bias.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2013

It was therefore quite natural that, in those lodges, an anti-Spanish spirit gradually arose in the Philippines.

From The Friars in the Philippines by Coleman, Ambrose