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The Cisplatine War [b] was an armed conflict fought in the 1820s between the Empire of Brazil and the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata over control of Brazil's Cisplatina province. It was fought in the aftermath of the United Provinces' and Brazil's independence from Spain and Portugal, respectively, and resulted in the independence of ...
The Attack on the Brazilian Fort in Punta del Este was a short-lived military operation during the Cisplatine War, led by Brigadier General Juan Antonio Lavalleja.The operation took place between August 17 and 19, 1827, in the region now known as Punta del Este in Uruguay.
Toggle Colonies by American (continent) countries subsection. 4.1 American. 4.2 Mexican. 4.3 Guatemalan. 4.4 Ecuadorian. ... (Cisplatine War) Paraguayan. Mato Grosso ...
Cisplatine War Empire of Brazil v. United Provinces: Banda Oriental: Unknown 1837: 1839: Tarija War Argentine Confederation v. Peru–Bolivian Confederation: Tarija Department: Unknown 1846: 1848: Mexican–American War United States v. Mexico: Texas Santa Fe de Nuevo México Alta California ~29,000 1859: 1859: Pig War (1859) United States v.
The name comes from the Latin prefix "cis" meaning "on this side of" and "platina", a reference to the Río de la Plata.Thus, the name Cisplatina means "province on the same side of the Río de la Plata", alluding to the fact that, from the Brazilian perspective, the region is located on the same side of the river as Brazil, cf. Cisalpine.
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Timelines of War: A Chronology of Warfare from 100,000 BC to the Present (1996), Global coverage. Cannon, John, ed. The Oxford Companion to British History (2003) Carlton, Charles. This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485–1746 (Yale UP; 2011) 332 pages; studies the impact of near unceasing war from the individual to the national levels.
By 1828 the Cisplatine War had been fought to a stalemate with Argentina's land forces unable to capture any major cities, [1] and Brazil forces pinned down and with severe lack of manpower for a full-scale offensive against Argentine forces. The heavy burden of the war and the increasing unlikelihood of any positive outcome led to heavy public ...