- Jose de San Martin (1778 - 1850) - Argentine general, leader of South America's uprising against Spanish governance. He's a national hero in Argentina, Chile and Peru.
- Miguel Hidalgo (1753 - 1811) - a Catholic priest from Mexico, who have taken leadership of Mexican War of Independence. He became one of the primary causes of the uprising against Spanish governance.
- Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743 - 1803) - leader of the uprising against French governance on Haiti. He changed the course of slavery in the New World making slaves independent on Haiti.
Fundamental reason for this was Russia’s under-developed economy, which was mostly agricultural – in fact until the mid-1800s it was almost entirely agrarian, with only minimal manufacturing or industry. <span> Government incentives of the late 1800s instigated a sharp increase in industrial investment and manufacturing; French investors, attracted by government deals, cheap labour and tax breaks, had eagerly pumped money into Russia to construct factories and new mines. But even with this, Russia still tailed its western European neighbours by a long stretch.</span>
Thomas Paine – wrote the pamphlet "Common Sense," which argued for independence from Great Britain
