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Juan Antonio Lavalleja

Uruguayan political leader

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role in Uruguay’s history

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    In Uruguay: The struggle for national identity

    …government was compelled to support Juan Antonio Lavalleja, one of Artigas’s exiled officers, and his “33 orientales” when they crossed the river to free their homeland in 1825. The ensuing war was a stalemate, but British diplomats mediated a settlement in 1827, and in 1828 a treaty was ratified creating…

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