The San Carlos Convent is located in

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, in

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. The

battle of San Lorenzo The Battle of San Lorenzo was fought on 3 February 1813 in San Lorenzo, Argentina, then part of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata. The royalist troops, were composed of militiamen recruited in Montevideo under the command of mil ...

was fought next to it, and both the convent itself and the battlefield are

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History

When the Jesuits were removed from the

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, the Franciscan friars moved to the chapel at San Miguel del Carcarañal. In 1790 they sought to establish another one more distant from the Parana river, and governor Félix Aldao gave them the current location. In that year they built the chapel, a well, a house for the monk appointed to it and a shed for the laborers. The shed was expanded in 1792, and the chapel was fenced. The friars finally moved to it in 1796.

Manuel Belgrano Manuel José Joaquín del Corazón de Jesús Belgrano y González (3 June 1770 – 20 June 1820), usually referred to as Manuel Belgrano (), was an Argentine public servant, economist, lawyer, politician, journalist, and military leader. He ...

visited it in 1811, in his return from the

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, and the chapel helped him the following year to build the "Independencia" and "Libertad" batteries at modern Rosario.

José de San Martín José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras (25 February 177817 August 1850), known simply as José de San Martín () or '' the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru'', was an Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern and cent ...

followed a royalist ship navigating the Parana, and hid his troops inside the convent. The ship landed near the chapel, attempting to pillage it, but San Martín made a surprise attack and defeated them at the

Battle of San Lorenzo The Battle of San Lorenzo was fought on 3 February 1813 in San Lorenzo, Argentina, then part of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata. The royalist troops, were composed of militiamen recruited in Montevideo under the command of mil ...

. The chapel was used after the battle to give medical treatment to the injured soldiers. The chapel was also the site where Belgrano,

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and Francisco Ramírez signed an armistice in 1819. The convent was declared National Monument on October 2, 1940, by law 12.648. Raimundo, mayor of San Lorenzo, made an agreement in 2008 with the Argentine Armed Forces so that the

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have a permanent presence in the site. The chapel works as a museum of the battle as well.

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History

See also

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