Great Siege of Montevideo

The Great Siege of Montevideo (Spanish: Gran Sitio de Montevideo), named as Sitio Grande in Uruguayan historiography, was the siege suffered by the city of Montevideo between 1843 and 1851 during the Uruguayan Civil War.[9]

For other uses, see Siege of Montevideo.
Great Siege of Montevideo
Part of the Uruguayan Civil War and the Platine War
Date16 November 1843 – 8 October 1851
(7 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 1 day)
Location
Montevideo, Uruguay
Result The siege is relieved after the intervention of the Empire of Brazil and the Entre Ríos province of Argentina.
Belligerents

Besiegers:

Supported by:

Besieged:

Supported by:

Commanders and leaders
Strength

1843:[1]

  • 3,630
  • 3,550


1851:[2][3]

11,000-14,000

1843:[1][4][5]

  • 3,000-8,000
  • 1,500-2,000
  • 400-600
  • 500

1851:[6][7][8]

  • 12,000-19,000
  • 5,000
  • 1,500
(Reinforcements)

In practice, this siege meant that Uruguay had two parallel governments:

The siege inspired a book by the French writer Alexandre Dumas, The New Troy (1850).

See also

References
  1. Rela 1998, pp. 64 and 91.
  2. Casas 2005, p. 255.
  3. Solari 1951, p. 146.
  4. Saldías 1978, p. 15.
  5. Granaderos - Historial. Cronología 1835-1846
  6. Núñez 1979, p. 3.
  7. Salgado 1943, pp. 7.
  8. Levene 1939, pp. 96.
  9. Walter Rela (1998). Uruguay: República Oriental del Uruguay, 1830-1864. Montevideo: ALFAR.

Bibliography
  • Bruce, George Harbottle (1981). Harbottle's Dictionary of Battles. Van Nostrand Reinhold. ISBN 0-442-22336-6
  • Casas, Lincoln R. Maiztegui (2005). Orientales: una historia política del Uruguay (in Spanish). Montevideo: Planeta.
  • Levene, Ricardo (1939). Historia de la nación argentina: (desde los orígenes hasta la organización definitiva en 1862) (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: El Ateneo.
  • McLean, David (1998) Garibaldi in Uruguay: A Reputation Reconsidered Vol. 113, No. 451. The English Historical Review. (Apr., 1998), pp. 351–66.
  • Núñez, Estuardo (1979). Tradiciones hispanoamericanas (in Spanish). Caracas: Fundación Biblioteca Ayacucho. ISBN 84-660-00-28-3
  • Rela, Walter (1998). Uruguay cronología histórica anotada: República Oriental del Uruguay 1830-1864 (in Spanish). Montevideo: ALFAR. ISBN 99-743-91-73-3
  • Sahuleka, Daniel; Navia, Vicente (1886). Compendio cronológico de historia universal por Mor. Daniel (in Spanish). Impr. de El Laurak-Bat.
  • Saldías, Adolfo (1978). Historia de la Confederación Argentina. Tomo III (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: EUDEBA, Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires.
  • Salgado, José (1943). Historia de la República Oriental del Uruguay. Tomo VIII (in Spanish). Montevideo: Tallares A. Barreiro y Ramos.
  • Solari, Juan Antonio (1951). De la tiranía a la organización nacional: Juan Francisco Seguí, secretario de Urquiza en 1851 (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Bases.


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