Conquest of the Desert
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The Conquest of the Desert was an Argentine military campaign directed mainly by General Julio Argentino Roca during the 1870s and 1880s with the intention of establishing dominance over Patagonia, in
Conquest of the Desert, by Juan Manuel Blanes (fragment showing Julio Argentino Roca, at the front)
Mapuches during a malón raid.
Merida Fresken Pacheco 15 Diego de Landa
Julio Argentino Roca
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Alejo Julio Argentino Roca Paz was an Argentine army general and statesman who served as President of Argentina from 1880 to 1886 and from 1898 to 1904. Roca is the most important representative of th
Conquest of the Desert
…The Conquest of the Desert (Spanish: Conquista del desierto) was an Argentine military campaign directed mainly by General Julio Argentino Roca during the 1870s and 1880s with the intention of establishing dominance over Patagonia, inhabited primarily by Indigenous peoples. The Conquest of the…
Julio roca portrait
Roca in his youth
Military occupation in Rio Negro territory, painting by Juan Manuel Blanes, 1889
Roca with the presidential band in his first term (1880–86)