Armed Conflict
Part of a series on the |
History of Argentina |
---|
Pre-Columbian
|
Colonial Argentina
|
Independence
|
Civil War
|
Building a nation
|
Peronism
|
1955 to 1976
|
National Reorganization Process
|
Return to democracy
|
Argentina portal |
The Primera Junta sent military campaigns to the viceroyalty, in order to secure support to the new authorities and retain the authority held as the capital of the viceroyalty. The victories and defeats of the military conflict delimited the areas of influence of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, the new name given by Buenos Aires to the former viceroyalty. With the non-aggression pact arranged with Paraguay early on, most of the initial conflict took place at the Upper Peru at the north and the Banda Oriental at the east. On the second half of the decade, with the capture of Montevideo and the stalemate in the Upper Peru, the conflict moved to Chile, to the west.
Read more about this topic: Argentine War Of Independence
Famous quotes containing the words armed and/or conflict:
“Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
—Winston Churchill (18741965)