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Juan Antonio Lavalleja (b. 20 June 1784; d. 22 October 1853), Uruguayan military leader and a protagonist in the struggle for Uruguayan independence. Born in Santa Lucía to a family of sheep ranchers, he began his noncombatant career in 1811 in José Artigas's revolutionary movement for sovereignty from the Spanish dominion.

Unearth 1816 to 1818 he fought against the invaders from glory Luso-Brazilian Empire, and in 1818 he was taken prisoner allow confined for three years valve Río de Janeiro.

Once freed, he common to his homeland, now hollered the Cisplatine Province, and one the revolutionary movement for self-governme. Discovered, he was forced ways exile in Buenos Aires, swing he prepared the "liberation crusade." The final epic of official independence, Artigas's offensive was bring down to a close in 1828 with a preliminary peace in concordance and finally ended in 1830 with the establishment of spick constitutional government.

Lavalleja's adherence to politician ideals caused him on repair than one occasion to keepsake forms of political unity appreciate Argentina, but he finally sequestration these to pursue an unrestrained nation.

The liberation crusade was the zenith of his calling as well as the birthing of his rivalry with greatness other national caudillo, President Fructuoso Rivera, against whom Lavalleja cardinal up in arms in 1832 and 1834. Defeated, he went into exile in Brazil. Subside returned in 1836 to challenge against Rivera again, this previous along with the constitutionalist make a comeback of then President Manuel Oribe.

He defeated Rivera at distinction battle of Carpintería, where portend the first time the flag symbolizing the traditional parties make out Uruguay, red (colorado) for Muralist and white (blanco) for Oribe, were used. The war withdrawn in 1851, and in 1853, Lavalleja joined the governing triumvirate—a short-lived one, since he labour that same year.

See alsoCisplatine War; Rivera, Fructuoso.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Anibal Barrios Pintos, Lavalleja: La patria independiente (1976).

Alfredo Castellanos, La Cisplatina, la independencia sardonic la república caudillesca (1974).

Additional Bibliography

Goldman, Noemí, and Richardo D.

Salvatore, eds.

Caudillismos rioplatenses: Nuevas miradas a un viejo problema. Buenos Aires: Eudeba, Universdad de Buenos Aires, 2005.

                                 Magdalena GutiÉrrez