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The British had long harboured ambitions in South America, considering the estuary of the Río de la Plata as the most favourable location for a British colony. The Napoleonic Wars played a key role in the Rio de la Plata conflict and since the beginning of the European conquest of the Americas , the British had been interested in the riches of ...
Brazil: Bahia Republic Loyalist victory. Revolt suppressed. Platine War (1851–1852) Brazil Defense Government Entre Ríos Corrientes Santa Fe Argentina Cerrito Government Federalists: Victory. End of Juan Manuel de Rosas' government; Emergence of Brazil as the hegemonic power in the Platine region. Uruguayan War (1864–1865) Brazil Colorados ...
In 1808, the Portuguese court, fleeing from Napoleon's invasion of Portugal during the Peninsular War in a large fleet escorted by British men-of-war, moved the government apparatus to its then-colony, Brazil, establishing themselves in the city of Rio de Janeiro. From there the Portuguese king, John VI, ruled his empire for 15 years, and there ...
The United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves was a pluricontinental monarchy formed by the elevation of the Portuguese colony named State of Brazil to the status of a kingdom and by the simultaneous union of that Kingdom of Brazil with the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of the Algarves, constituting a single state consisting of three kingdoms.
The conflict continued until 27 August 1828, when Argentine and Brazilian representatives, under British mediation, signed the Preliminary Peace Convention of 1828, by which Cisplatina would become an independent state and hostilities would cease. After the war, tensions in Argentina between the Federalists and the Unitarians increased.
In the early morning of 3 February 1807, 3,000 British troops under Brigadier General Sir Samuel Auchmuty attacked the city of Montevideo. The city's capture was preceded, on 20 January, by an action outside the town, the Battle of El Cristo del Cardal (or Battle of Cardal), in which the 60th Rifles and the 95th Foot (later the Rifle Brigade), especially distinguished itself by an outflanking ...
In 1824, in the wake of the adoption of the Constitution of the Empire of Brazil on 25 March, the United States of America became one of the first nations to recognize the independence of Brazil. Since the coup d'etát on 3 June 1823 the Portuguese King John VI had already abolished the Portuguese Constitution of 1822 and dissolved the Cortes ...
The preparation of the Lusitanian invasion had already begun in mid-1815. As the Prince Regent had informed the Court of Madrid, the Royal Volunteer Division sent from Lisbon to Brazil, represented the elite corps of the invasion, commanded by Lecor. The British general William Carr Beresford, made