Battle of Tacuarembó
Battle delivered the January 22nd 1820, during the war of independence of Uruguay.
After their victory over the Spanish occupant and the catch of Montevideo, then their success in the war which opposed them to Buenos Aires (Bataille of Guayabos), the Uruguyans was going to have to face a new adversary, the Portugal, whose troops invaded for the second time the Banda Eastern in less than 5 years. After alternations of success and reverse (Battle of India Muerta), the enemy armies were going to be opposed in a decisive battle to Tacuarembó.
It was a disaster for the Eastern ones, whose troops, ordered by Jose Gervasio Artigas could not hold vis-a-vis the Portuguese soldiers, of which a good part was veterans of the Napoleonean wars.
This defeat rang the knell of Uruguyan independence; without army, betrays by its Argentinian federalistic allies, Artigas left for the exile to the Paraguay and withdrew political life. Portugal annexed Uruguay with its colony of the Brésil. The country recovered its independence only at the conclusion of a difficult conflict, the Guerre of Cisplatine (1825 - 1828), and after having gained over Brazil the Bataille of Sarandi and the Bataille of Ituzaingo. ----
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