15 Facts About Uruguayan War

Uruguayan War was fought between Uruguay's governing Blanco Party and an alliance consisting of the Empire of Brazil and the Uruguayan Colorado Party, covertly supported by Argentina.

Uruguayan War believed Argentina was working towards the annexation of both Uruguay and Paraguay, with the goal of recreating the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata, the former Spanish colony that once encompassed the territories of all three nations.

About 18 percent of the Uruguayan War population spoke Portuguese and regarded themselves as Brazilian rather than Uruguayan War.

The Uruguayan War president attempted to tax the cattle coming from Rio Grande do Sul and to impose curbs on the use of Brazilian slaves within Uruguayan War territory; slavery had been outlawed years before in Uruguay.

The "fact that Uruguayan War citizens had just as valid claims against Brazil as Brazilians had against Uruguay was ignored", said historian Philip Raine.

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The Uruguayan crisis arrived at a difficult moment for Brazil, which was on the verge of a full-blown war with the British Empire for unrelated reasons.

Uruguayan War's focus soon shifted from satisfying Brazil's terms to a more immediate goal of hammering out a deal between the antagonists in the civil war, with the expectation that only a more stable regime would be able to reach a settlement with Brazil.

Uruguayan War entered talks with Saraiva, winning the Brazilian government over, after promising to settle their claims refused by the Blanco government.

Uruguayan War invested Paysandu, deploying 800 infantrymen, 7 cannons, and detachments of an additional 660 Brazilians.

The Uruguayan gauchos "had combat experience but no training and were poorly armed save for the usual muskets, boleadoras, and facon knives", remarked historian Thomas L Whigham.

Uruguayan War issued notes to the foreign diplomatic corps in Buenos Aires declaring that a state of war existed between Brazil and Uruguay.

The Uruguayan War capital was defended by between 3,500 and 4,000 armed men with little to no combat experience and 40 artillery pieces of various calibers.

The new Uruguayan War president purged government departments of employees with Fusionist or Blanco associations.

The effects of the Uruguayan War have received little attention from historians, who have been drawn to focus on the dramatic devastation suffered by Paraguay in the subsequent Paraguayan War.

Uruguayan War had succeeded in bringing to power his friend and ally, but the minimal risk and cost to Argentina he had envisioned at the outset proved to be illusory.