Army of the North
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The Army of the North, contemporaneously called Army of Peru, was one of the armies deployed by the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata in the Spanish American wars of independence. Its objective
Manuel Belgrano, one of the main revolutionary leaders, was a lawyer and economist; had to improvise himself as a soldier to take charge of the independentist armies sent to Paraguay and Upper Peru. Statue in Plaza de Mayo (Buenos Aires)
Juan Ramírez Orozco
Ejercito Libertador cruce de Cordillera de los andes
Retrato más canónico de José de San Martín
Eustoquio Díaz Vélez
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Eustoquio Antonio Díaz Vélez was an Argentine military officer who fought against the British invasions of the Río de la Plata, participated in the May Revolution, in the war of independence and in th
Army of the North
…city, then in Jujuy and finally in Salta's territory, where they would receive help from Güemes and where Balcarce was replaced by Pueyrredón. General Eustaquio Díaz Vélez with 800 soldiers was sent by Pueyrredón to support the insurrection at Cochabamba in a new attempt to advance on Upper Peru, but were repealed at…
General Eustoquio Díaz Vélez
Eustoquio Díaz Vélez.
Proclamation of Don Eustoquio Díaz Vélez.
Eustoquio Díaz Vélez. Oil on canvas portrait painted by Benjamín Franklin Rawson. Provincial Museum Complex "Enrique Udaondo". Luján. Provincia de Buenos Aires. República Argentina.