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Juan de San Martín faced many indigenous rebellions, and viceroy Juan José de Vértiz y Salcedo removed him from his charge in 1780. He left Yapeyú in February 1781, and returned to Buenos Aires. As a result, José de San Martín only lived for around three or four years in Yapeyú. Many people that met San Martín described him as having ...
José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras (Spanish pronunciation: [xoˈse ðe sam maɾˈtin] ⓘ; 25 February 1778 – 17 August 1850), nicknamed "the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru", [1] was an Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern and central parts of South America's successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire who served as the Protector of Peru.
José de San Martín was born in Yapeyú, Corrientes, son of Juan de San Martín and Gregoria Matorras del Ser. The exact year of Martín's birth is unknown, and historians are divided between 1777 and 1778. An officer in the military, Juan de San Martín requested a new deployment, and in 1781, he moved his family from Yapeyu to Buenos Aires.
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In 1824, the General José de San Martin (today the national hero of Argentina and Perú) visited him at Duff House (see external link below). He was succeeded by his nephew, James Duff , the elder son of James Duff's only brother, General the Hon. Sir Alexander Duff , who commanded the 88th regiment, the Connaught Rangers , from 1798 to 1810.
Mausoleum of San Martín at the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral.The three statues are national personifications of Argentina, Chile and Peru. José de San Martín is the national hero of Argentina, Chile and Peru, and along with Simón Bolívar, the most important Libertador of the Spanish American Wars of Independence.
Historia de San Martín y de la emancipación sudamericana (English: History of San Martín and the South American emancipation) is a biography of José de San Martín, written by Bartolomé Mitre in 1869. Along with his biography of Manuel Belgrano, it is one of the earliest major works of the historiography of Argentina.
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