Brandsen is a town in

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, Argentina. It is the head town of the

Brandsen Partido Brandsen is a partido in northeastern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. In 2001 the city and district had a population of about 22,500 people. It covers an area of . The capital is also known as Brandsen. History Founded on November 21, 1875 it l ...

History

The city built up around a railway station named ''Coronel Brandsen'' which was named after Colonel

Federico de Brandsen Carlos Luis Federico de Brandsen (Paris, November 28, 1785 – Battle of Ituzaingó, February 20, 1827) was a Colonel of France, French origin who fought in many of the South American wars of independence and for Argentina in the Cisplatine Wa ...

, who fought in the liberation of

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and

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and died heroically at the

battle of Ituzaingó The Battle of Ituzaingó, also known as the Battle of Passo do Rosário, was a pitched battle fought in the vicinity of the Santa Maria River, in a valley of small hills where a stream divided the valley into two. After a two-year series of cont ...

on February 20, 1827, in the war with

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. The city held the "Brandsen Rock Todo El Año" in 2007, as well as the "Desfile De Carnaval Brandsen" in February and March., the "Santa Rita De Cascia" festival and many other festivals in May and "Campo Brandsen", a camp where the younger people go to play many different sports.

External links

Municipal website

Populated places in Buenos Aires Province {{BuenosAiresAR-geo-stub