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José Félix Aldao
José Félix Esquivel y Aldao (11 October 1785 - 19 January 1845) was an Argentine Dominican friar and soldier who became a general and then the undisputed Federalist ''caudillo'' of Mendoza Province. His ability as a warrior and his brutality became legendary. The largely fictionalized biography that Domingo Faustino Sarmiento wrote fed his legend. An effective ruler, he did much for his province, but was also one of the cruelest federalist leaders. From friar to colonel José Félix Esquivel y Aldao was born in Mendoza, Argentina on October 11, 1785, the son of an army captain from what is now Santa Fe Province. His brothers José and Francisco were both soldiers who reached the rank of Colonel. He was educated in a Dominican college and soon entered the order. He was ordained a priest in 1806, and gained a doctorate in Santiago de Chile. Upon returning to Mendoza, Aldao joined the Army of the Andes along with his brothers to campaign in Chile as chaplain of a regiment. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando García Del Molino
Fernando García del Molino (23 March 1813, Santiago — 1899, Buenos Aires) was a Viceroyalty of Peru-born Argentine portrait painter, miniaturist and lithographer. Many of his portraits were done from photographs or daguerrotypes. Biography He was born to a family of Spanish merchants. In 1822, when he was only nine, they moved to Buenos Aires. Shortly after, he began to show some artistic talent and was enrolled in classes at the "Academy of Drawing" of the University of Buenos Aires, where he studied with the Italian painter, Pablo Caccianiga (1798-1862).Brief biography @ Revisionistas. While there, he befriended his fellow student Carlos Morel and they often painted together. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Chacabuco
The Battle of Chacabuco, fought during the Chilean War of Independence, took place on February 12, 1817. The Army of the Andes, from the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata and led by Captain (land), Captain–General José de San Martín, defeated a Spanish force commanded by Rafael Maroto. This victory was a significant defeat for the Captaincy General of Chile, the royalist government established after the division of the Viceroyalty of Peru. Background In 1814, after helping establish a popularly elected congress in Argentina, José de San Martín began considering how to expel the Spanish royalists from South America entirely. He recognized that the first step would be to drive them out of Chile, and with this in mind, he began recruiting and equipping an army. In under two years, he had assembled a force of approximately 6,000 men, 1,200 horses, and 22 cannons. On January 17, 1817, San Martín set out with this force and commenced the challenging crossing of the Andes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Facundo Quiroga
Juan Facundo Quiroga (27 November 1788 – 16 February 1835) was an Argentine caudillo (military strongman) who supported federalism at the time when the country was still in formation. Early years Quiroga was born in San Antonio, La Rioja, the son of a traditional but impoverished Riojan family of cattle breeders descended from the Visigothic king Reccared I. Quiroga was sent at a young age to San Juan to be educated. Early in his life, he became a problem child, and escaped from school. During wanderings in the desert between San Juan and La Rioja, he purportedly encountered and killed a cougar, earning him the nickname ''El Tigre de los Llanos'' ("the Tiger of the Plains", after the ''Llanos'', the region of his birth). After the May Revolution proclaimed the self-rule of the country, Quiroga tried to enter the independentist army. He travelled to San Luis to enter the '' Granaderos a Caballo'' Regiment, led by General José de San Martín. He was imprisoned and eventua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Bautista Bustos
Juan Bautista Bustos (August 29, 1779 - September 18, 1830) was an Argentine politician and military leader who participated in the British invasions of the River Plate and the Argentine Civil Wars. In 1820, he became the first constitutional Governor of Córdoba. Early Military Career In 1806, Juan Bautista Bustos was captain in the militias that marched from Córdoba to liberate Buenos Aires during the first British Invasion. After the city's Reconquista, he joined the Battalion of Arribeños. In 1807, facing the second British Invasion, he led a troop of 30 soldiers against a British fort of the 88th Regiment and achieved their surrender. For his valor, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the Arribeños. He participated in the May Revolution of 1810 as one of its principal proponents in the provinces. In April 1811, he was assigned as a member of the Tribunal of Public Security. However, upon the fall of Cornelio Saavedra's sector, he was removed from his military c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José María Paz
Brigadier General José María Paz y Haedo (September 9, 1791 – October 22, 1854) was an Argentine military figure, notable in the Argentine War of Independence and the Argentine Civil Wars. Childhood Born in Córdoba, Argentina, the son of '' criollos'' José Paz and María Tiburcia Haedo, Paz y Haedo studied philosophy and theology at the ''Seminario de Loreto'' intern school, then at the Universidad de Córdoba, receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree with orientation in mathematics, Latin and law. After the May Revolution he joined the army that would fight the Royalists forces and allow the independence of Argentina. His brother, Julián Paz Haedo, born in 1793, was also an officer in the revolutionary army. Battles for the War of Independence José Paz was sent to Upper Peru in 1811, and participated in the 1812 victories of the Army of the North, under General Manuel Belgrano. As assistant to Baron von Holmberg (Belgrano's secretary), he was awarded with the "Def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Córdoba Province, Argentina
Córdoba () is a Provinces of Argentina, province of Argentina, located in the center of the country. Its neighboring provinces are (clockwise from the north) Santiago del Estero Province, Santiago del Estero, Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe, Buenos Aires Province, Buenos Aires, La Pampa Province, La Pampa, San Luis Province, San Luis, La Rioja Province, Argentina, La Rioja, and Catamarca Province, Catamarca. Together with Santa Fe and Entre Ríos Province, Entre Ríos, the province is part of the economic and political association known as the Center Region (Argentina), Center Region. Córdoba is the second-most populous Argentine province, with 3,978,984 inhabitants, and the fifth by size, at about . Almost 41% of its inhabitants reside in the capital city, Córdoba, Argentina, Córdoba, and its surroundings, making it the second most populous Metropolitan area, metro area in Argentina. History Before the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish conquista the region now calle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buenos Aires Province
Buenos Aires, officially the Buenos Aires Province, is the largest and most populous Provinces of Argentina, Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of the province and the province's capital until it was Federalization of Buenos Aires, federalized in 1880. Since then, in spite of bearing the same name, the province does not include Buenos Aires city, though it does include all other parts of the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area. The capital of the province is the city of La Plata, founded in 1882. It is bordered by the provinces of Entre Ríos Province, Entre Ríos to the northeast, Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe to the north, Córdoba Province, Argentina, Córdoba to the northwest, La Pampa Province, La Pampa to the west, Río Negro Province, Río Negro to the south and west and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires to the northeast. Uruguay is just across the Rio de la Plata to the northeast, and bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pehuenche
Pehuenche (or Pewenche) are an Indigenous people of South America. They live in the Andes, primarily in present-day south central Chile and adjacent Argentina. Their name derives from their dependence for food on the seeds of the ''Araucaria araucana'' or monkey-puzzle tree ( in Mapudungun). In the 16th century, the Pehuenche lived in the mountainous territory from approximately 34 degrees to 40 degrees south. Later they became Araucanization, Araucanized and partially merged with the Mapuche peoples. In the 21st century, they still retain some of their ancestral lands. Pehuenche groups participated in various armed conflicts in the 17th and 18th centuries, usually by "descending" from the mountains to the western lowlands of Chile. As such they attacked the Spanish around Maule River Mapuche uprising of 1655, in 1657,Pinochet ''et al''. 1997, p. 82. the Mapuche Mapuche uprising of 1766, in January 1767,Barros Arana, 1886, p. 236. and the Spanish of Isla del Laja on late 1769.Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Rafael, Mendoza
San Rafael is a city in the southern region of the Mendoza Province, Argentina. With more than 118,000 inhabitants (), it is the largest city in and the seat of San Rafael Department. The city is located 240 km from Mendoza, Argentina, the provincial capital and 990 km from Buenos Aires, the federal capital. Natural attractions in the area include the Rio Diamante, Diamante River, which flows through the city, the rapids-strewn Atuel River just south and Lake Los Reyunos, 20 km (12 mi) west of San Rafael. History Spanish expeditions led by Francisco de Villagra from what today is Chile first surveyed the area in 1551 and, finding a well-established agricultural Coquimbo and Diaguita cultures, they rapidly subdued the existing peoples and expropriated the land. Displaced Pehuenches revolted, however, and repeated attacks led to an 1804 treaty signed by Viceroy Rafael de Sobremonte whereby the Pehuenches ceded land to colonial authorities. The construction o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Carlos, Mendoza
San Carlos or Villa San Carlos is a town in Mendoza Province Mendoza (), officially the Province of Mendoza, is a province of Argentina, in the western central part of the country in the Cuyo region. It borders San Juan to the north, La Pampa and Neuquén to the south, San Luis to the east, and the r ..., Argentina. It is the head town of San Carlos Department Notable people * Alfredo Cornejo, governor of the province * Hugo Corro world Middleweight champion boxer External links Municipal website Populated places in Mendoza Province {{MendozaAR-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardino Rivadavia
Bernardino de la Trinidad González Rivadavia (May 20, 1780 – September 2, 1845) was the first President of Argentina, then called the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, from February 8, 1826 to June 27, 1827. He was educated at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, Royal College of San Carlos, but left without finishing his studies. During the British invasions of the River Plate, British Invasions he served as Third Lieutenant of the Galicia Volunteers. He participated in the Cabildo abierto del 22 de mayo de 1810, open Cabildo on May 22, 1810 voting for the deposition of the viceroy. He had a strong influence on the First Triumvirate (Argentina), First Triumvirate and shortly after he served as Minister of Government and Foreign Affairs of the Province of Buenos Aires. Although there was a General Congress intended to draft a constitution, the beginning of the Cisplatine War, War with Brazil led to the immediate establishment of the office of President of Argenti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvador María Del Carril
Salvador María del Carril (August 5, 1798January 10, 1883) was an Argentine jurist and policy-maker, as well as the country's first Vice President. Life and times Early life Born in the Andes-range city of San Juan, Argentina, del Carril was a precocious student, and enrolled in the University of Córdoba Law School while still in his teens. Mentored by the school's prestigious ecclesiastical Dean, Gregorio Funes, del Carril received a ''juris doctor'' in 1816, at age 18. He relocated to Buenos Aires, the capital of the newly declared United Provinces of South America, and following a stint as a journalist, he was appointed as an official in the Finance Ministry. General José María Pérez de Urdininea, Governor of his native San Juan Province (which had recently seceded from Mendoza Province), called on del Carril to replace Francisco Narciso de Laprida as his Minister of Government in 1822, the highest-ranking advisory position. Amid the turmoil surrounding the Argentine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
