Liniers counterrevolution
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The Liniers counter-revolution took place in the Spanish Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata after the May Revolution in 1810. The former viceroy, Santiago de Liniers, led an ill-fated counter-revoluti
Execution of Santiago de Liniers
Ejercito Libertador cruce de Cordillera de los andes
Retrato más canónico de José de San Martín
El Congreso de Tucumán 1816 Francisco Fortuny
Primera Junta
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The Primera Junta, or Junta Provisional Gubernativa de las Provincias del Río de la Plata, is the most common name given to the first government of what would eventually become Argentina. It was forme
Liniers counterrevolution
…Ortiz de Ocampo, the leader of the Army of the North, captured the leaders and dispatched them to Buenos Aires as prisoners, but, on the orders of the Primera Junta, they were intercepted and executed before arrival. On May 25, 1810, Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros was deposed by the May Revolution, and replaced…
Primera junta por Francisco Fortuny
The Open cabildo of 22 May decided to replace the viceroy with a Junta
1897 lithograph of the members of the Primera Junta
Mariano Moreno, Secretary of War, was one of the most important members of the Primera Junta