{"id":334,"date":"2016-11-08T14:47:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T14:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/upgrade-warandnation\/?page_id=334"},"modified":"2018-11-22T09:27:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T09:27:49","slug":"1815-the-artigas-confederation-unites-against-buenos-aires","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/warandnation\/1815-the-artigas-confederation-unites-against-buenos-aires\/","title":{"rendered":"1815 The Artigas Confederation Unites against Buenos Aires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Artigas&#039; Confederation (the Federal League) Unites against Buenos Aires\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rDxswG6IHug?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In the R\u00edo de la Plata region a gaucho leader called Jos\u00e9 Gervasio Artigas was an important agent in the War for Independence.\u00a0He worked for the Royal Forces and moved to the forces for independence in 1811.<\/p>\n<p>Fernando VII attempted to <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/warandnation\/1815-spanish-forces-seek-to-re-conquer-the-americas\/\">reassert control in the Americas<\/a> but despite success in most other regions of South America, by mid 1815 Spain had still not regained control of the former Viceroylaty of R\u00edo de la Plata. In 1815 the Viceroy in the region surrendered Montevideo to the Army of Buenos Aires, which was led by Carlos de Alvear.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3596\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3596\" class=\"wp-image-3596 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/warandnation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1846\/2018\/04\/Imprenta-Belgrana--150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/warandnation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1846\/2018\/04\/Imprenta-Belgrana--150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/warandnation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1846\/2018\/04\/Imprenta-Belgrana--200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">La imprenta belgrana Museo Hist\u00f3rico Nacional del Cabildo de Buenos Aires y de la Revoluci\u00f3n de Mayo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Amid the royalist surrender, Alvears troops were able to take ammunition and a printing press that had been sent to the former Viceroy. Their success did not last long, however, as\u00a0Alvear\u2019s troops mutinied and his army, the Army of Buenos Aires, withdrew from Montevideo.\u00a0Artigas and his troops were based in the region and they returned to Montevideo. Although Artigas was an independence fighter by this time, he was opposed to the centralist system that the junta in Buenos Aires wanted to create.<\/p>\n<p>Artigas established the Federal League, a confederation of provinces in what is now Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil that aimed to establish a federal state rather than a centralist state in the new nation that was emerging in the region. The confederation had an economic function as well as a political one. It linked some of the provinces with the eastern shore, meaning that they could trade with merchant ships on the Atlantic. Essentially this allowed Atlantic trade to bypass Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Gabriel di Meglio speaks about the Federal League in the podcast above.<\/p>\n<p>In fact it was the Portuguese that were to be instrumental in Artigas\u2019 downfall. Joao VI sought to take the Eastern Shore province of the R\u00edo de la Plata. Artigas\u2019 gaucho lancers were no match for Joao\u2019s army.\u00a0Artigas went into exile in Paraguay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further Reading <\/strong><br \/>\nDi Meglio, Gabriel &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/30793229\/Un_brindis_por_el_gran_Washington_._Miradas_sobre_los_Estados_Unidos_en_el_R\u00edo_de_la_Plata_1810-1835\">Un brindis por el gran Washington<\/a>&#8221; <em>Revista Co-herencia<\/em> 13, no 25 (2016): 61-88.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the R\u00edo de la Plata region a gaucho leader called Jos\u00e9 Gervasio Artigas was an important agent in the War for Independence.\u00a0He worked for the Royal Forces and moved to the forces for independence in 1811. 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