La reconquista de Buenos Aires
Subtitle: el cenit de Montevideo colonial
By: Juan Carlos Luzuriaga
Edition: 1.a edición.
Publisher: Editorial Planeta, S.A.
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Montevideo, Uruguay
Language: spa
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9789974746916
Subjects: History; English Invasions of Argentina (1806-1807) fast (OCoLC)fst01352978
Description: The English invasion of Buenos Aires in 1806 marked the zenith of colonial Montevideo, the culminating moment of a world that would never be the same again. At the San Pedro Gate, with fife and drums, families, their merchants and neighbors, voluntarily converted into soldiers fired on the invaders. Hundreds of Montevideanos of age to fight were to retake the Buenos Airean capital- this operation of reconquest, organized by the military and military forces of Montevideo, revealed them loyal to a crown that was geographically far to protect them quickly and, at the same time, too decadent to overcome the coming attacks. What was behind the "courageous audacity" of the very faithful Montevideans?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-276).
Table of contents: title: Guerra y sociedad en la reconquista; title: Montevideo y la reconquista de Buenos Aires; title: La historiografía sobre invasiones inglesas; title: El cenit del Montevideo colonial; title: Conclusiones.