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  2. Río de la Plata - Wikipedia

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    The Río de la Plata region, particularly Buenos Aires, was a significant site of trade throughout the 17th century. The Crown initially intended Buenos Aires to be a military establishment for the protection of the Potosí mines, but it soon became evident that a settlement large enough to provide military defense would attract trade. The ...

  3. Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata - Wikipedia

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    The colony of Spanish Guinea (present-day Equatorial Guinea) also depended administratively on the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata. [8] Buenos Aires, located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata estuary flowing into the Atlantic Ocean, opposite the Portuguese outpost of Colonia del Sacramento, was chosen as the capital

  4. Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata - Wikipedia

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    Buenos Aires faced the French blockade of the Río de la Plata between 1838 and 1840. The Peru–Bolivian Confederation , allied with France, declared the War of the Confederation on Argentina. Rosas resisted the blockade longer than France estimated he would do, and his strategy of generating disputes between France and England over the ...

  5. British invasions of the River Plate - Wikipedia

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    The Waters of Oblivion: The British Invasion of the Rio de la Plata, 1806–1807. Staplehurst, Kent, UK: Spellmount. ISBN 186-227-342-1. Luna, Félix (1994). Breve historia de los Argentinos (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Planeta / Espejo de la Argentina. ISBN 950-742-415-6. Luna, Félix (2003). Los conflictos armados (in Spanish). Buenos Aires ...

  6. United Provinces of the Río de la Plata - Wikipedia

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    The United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (Spanish: Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata), earlier known as the United Provinces of South America (Spanish: Provincias Unidas de Sudamérica), was a name adopted in 1816 by the Congress of Tucumán for the region of South America that declared independence in 1816, with the Sovereign Congress taking place in 1813, during the Argentine War of ...

  7. French blockade of the Río de la Plata - Wikipedia

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    The French blockade of the Río de la Plata was a two-year-long naval blockade imposed by France on the Argentine Confederation ruled by Juan Manuel de Rosas. It closed Buenos Aires to naval commerce. It was imposed in 1838 to support the Peru–Bolivian Confederation in the War of the Confederation, but continued after the end of the war.

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