The United Provinces of the Río de la Plata or United Provinces of the River Plate, along with United Provinces in South America, are names used to refer to the emerging state that succeeded the Vicer
Ferdinand VII, de jure king of Spain in 1810
Members of the Primera Junta
Blessing of the Argentine flag in San Salvador de Jujuy
San Martín, Argentina's main national hero
Cisplatine War
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The Cisplatine War was an armed conflict fought in the 1820s between the Empire of Brazil and the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata over control of the Banda Oriental following its annexation by
United Provinces of the Río de la Plata
…that succeeded the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata after the May Revolution, from 1810 to 1831, encompassing the Argentine War of Independence, the Cisplatine War and the beginning of the Argentine Civil Wars. The aforementioned state is now the Argentine Republic. The name "United Provinces of the Río de la…
Azulejo depicting the founding of Colônia do Sacramento by the Portuguese in 1680
The Division of Royal Volunteers parading in Praia Grande before embarking to Montevideo, by Jean-Baptiste Debret
Artigas in Paraguay, by Eduardo Carbajal (attributed)
![The landing of the Thirty-Three Orientales [Uruguayans] on Agraciada beach, by Josefa Palacios](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Desembarco_de_los_Treinta_y_Tres_Orientales_-_Josefa_Palacios.jpg/500px-Desembarco_de_los_Treinta_y_Tres_Orientales_-_Josefa_Palacios.jpg)
The landing of the Thirty-Three Orientales [Uruguayans] on Agraciada beach, by Josefa Palacios