Battle of Sarandí

The Bataille of Sarandí is a Bataille delivered the October 17th 1825, during the Guerre of Cisplatine (1825 - 1828).

Following the Battle of Tacuarembó (1820), the Banda Eastern (the Uruguay of today) is annexed by the Portugal with its colony of the Brésil and becomes the province of Cisplatine. The Uruguyans never gave up their independence and when Brazil frees itself from Portugal, after a short war (1822 - 1823), and in front of the clear refusal and Net of the Brazilian authorities to reach their wishes, in 1825 a group of them, the Treinta there Tres (the Thirty-three ones) carried out by Juan Antonio Lavalleja holds up the standard of the revolt. This one extended quickly and the army of the Cruzada will libertadora (crusade of liberation), gained with the Bataille of Rincon (September 24th 1825) its first notable success over the troops of the empire of Brazil.

October 12th, Lavalleja, assisted by the generals Fructuoso Will rivet and Manuel Oribe and its 2.360 men (238 officers and 2.122 soldiers), gained over the edges of the stream Sarandí, affluent of the river Yi, in the department of Flores, a new victory over the Brazilian army. This battle was going to appear decisive for the continuation of the events because it decided the government of Buenos Aires, which supported the revolt, to intervene militarily in the conflict. After grinds engagements and of alternations of success and failures, the Uruguyans and the Argentinian ones will inflict with the Bataille of Ituzaingo (1827), a serious defeat with the Brazilian ones, which will lead its last to admit impossibility of continuing to impose their sovereignty on the area.

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