Juan Antonio Lavalleja
Juan Antonio Lavalleja | |
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 Juan Antonio Lavalleja | |
| President of Uruguay | |
| In office 1853–1853 | |
| Preceded by | Venancio Flores |
| Succeeded by | Fructuoso Rivera |
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| Born | 24 June 1784 Minas, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (now Uruguay) |
| Died | 22 October 1853 (aged 69) |
Juan Antonio Lavalleja y de la Torre (June 24, 1784 – October 22, 1853)[1] was an Uruguayan revolutionary, military general, and political figure.[2] He was born in Minas, in a region now named after him as the Lavalleja Department of Uruguay.
Pre-Independence role
[edit]Lavalleja led the group called the Thirty-Three Orientals during Uruguay's Declaration of Independence from the Empire of Brazil in 1825. His leadership of this group has taken on somewhat mythic proportions in popular Uruguayan historiography.
Before leading the Thirty-Three, he had been captured by the Portuguese in 1818 and returned to Uruguay in 1821.[1]
Post-Independence career
[edit]After Uruguay's independence in 1825, Lavalleja was brigadier general and commander-in-chief of its national army between 1825 and 1828.[1] He lead his forces to victory at the Battle of Sarandí and commanded the forces of the Banda Oriental among allied forces of the United Provinces to victory in the Battle of Ituzaingó.[1]
In 1830, Lavalleja sought national presidency as a rival to Fructuoso Rivera, but he lost. In protest of his loss, Lavalleja staged revolts. He was part of a triumvirate chosen in 1852 to govern Uruguay, but died shortly after his accession to power,[3] on October 22, 1853 in Montevideo.[1]
Historical legacy
[edit]Lavalleja is remembered as a rebel who led the fight against Brazil. But as one of the major figures in early, post-independence Uruguayan history he is identified as a skilled but reactionary warrior who contributed to the culture of intermittent civil war which dogged Uruguay for much of the 19th century.
Family
[edit]Lavalleja married Ana Monterroso in 1817; she was sister of José Benito Monterroso.
- Setembrino Pereda, La leyenda del arroyo Monzón, Lavalleja y Rivera. Montevideo: 1935.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Natalicio de Juan Antonio Lavalleja". Ejército Nacional del Uruguay (in Spanish). June 24, 2024. Retrieved January 11, 2025.
- ^ Machado, Roberto Pinheiro (2018-06-11). Brazilian History: Culture, Society, Politics 1500-2010. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 62. ISBN 978-1-5275-1209-2.
- ^ Borucki, Alex (2015-11-01). From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata. UNM Press. p. 145. ISBN 978-0-8263-5179-1.
External links
[edit]- Biografía de Lavalleja - Biography
- Amérique Latine, Histoire & Mémoire - 15 | 2008 : Etat et Nation I (19e siècle) - Article about his
- Genealogy and Ancestry of Lavalleja
- Una flor blanca en el cardal - PerSe - A White Flower in a catholic religious. (The Book do mention to he) Archived 2020-08-03 at the Wayback Machine
- Political Office-Holders in Uruguay: Education and Culture Ministers of Uruguay, Foreign Ministers of Uruguay, Interior Ministers of Uruguay
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