The Great Siege of Montevideo ( es, Gran Sitio de Montevideo), named as ''Sitio Grande'' in Uruguayan historiography, was the
siege
A siege is a military blockade of a city, or fortress, with the intent of conquering by attrition, or a well-prepared assault. This derives from la, sedere, lit=to sit. Siege warfare is a form of constant, low-intensity conflict characteriz ...
suffered by the city of
Montevideo
Montevideo () is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . Montevideo is situated on the southern co ...
between 1843 and 1851 during the
Uruguayan Civil War.
[Walter Rela (1998). ]
Uruguay: República Oriental del Uruguay, 1830-1864
'. Montevideo: ALFAR.
In practice, this siege meant that Uruguay had two parallel governments:
*
Gobierno de la Defensa in Montevideo, led by
Joaquín Suárez (1843 – 1852)
*
Gobierno del Cerrito (with headquarters in the present-day neighborhood of
Cerrito de la Victoria), ruling the rest of the country, led by
Manuel Oribe
Manuel Ceferino Oribe y Viana (August 26, 1792 – November 12, 1857) was the 2nd Constitutional president of Uruguay and founder of Uruguay's National Party, the oldest Uruguayan political party and considered one of the two Uruguayan "tr ...
(1843 – 1851)
The siege inspired a book by the French writer
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas (, ; ; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (), 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père (where '' '' is French for 'father', to distinguish him from his son Alexandre Dumas fils), was a French writer ...
, ''
The New Troy
''Montevideo, or the new Troy'' (french: Montevideo, ou une nouvelle Troie) is an 1850 novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is a historical novel about the Uruguayan Civil War, where the Uruguayan presidents Manuel Oribe and Fructuoso Rivera disputed the ...
'' (1850).
See also
*
Gobierno de la Defensa
*
Gobierno del Cerrito
*
Uruguayan Civil War
References
Bibliography
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* Casas, Lincoln R. Maiztegui (2005). ''Orientales: una historia política del Uruguay'' . Montevideo: Planeta.
* Levene, Ricardo (1939). ''Historia de la nación argentina: (desde los orígenes hasta la organización definitiva en 1862)'' . Buenos Aires: El Ateneo.
* McLean, David (1998)
Garibaldi in Uruguay: A Reputation Reconsidered' Vol. 113, No. 451. The English Historical Review. (Apr., 1998), pp. 351–66.
* Núñez, Estuardo (1979).
Tradiciones hispanoamericanas' . Caracas: Fundación Biblioteca Ayacucho.
* Rela, Walter (1998)
''Uruguay cronología histórica anotada: República Oriental del Uruguay 1830-1864''. Montevideo: ALFAR.
* Sahuleka, Daniel; Navia, Vicente (1886). ''Compendio cronológico de historia universal por Mor. Daniel'' . Impr. de El Laurak-Bat.
* Saldías, Adolfo (1978). ''Historia de la Confederación Argentina. Tomo III'' . Buenos Aires: EUDEBA, Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires.
* Salgado, José (1943). ''Historia de la República Oriental del Uruguay. Tomo VIII'' . Montevideo: Tallares A. Barreiro y Ramos.
* Solari, Juan Antonio (1951). ''De la tiranía a la organización nacional: Juan Francisco Seguí, secretario de Urquiza en 1851 ''. Buenos Aires: Bases.
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Montevideo
Montevideo () is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . Montevideo is situated on the southern co ...
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