By Dr. Oscar JC Denovi
Following the tribute paid to the Vuelta de Obligado 20 / 11/2010, Article of the playwright, historian and writer Pacho O'Donnell, "An epic long hidden" and the historian and researcher at the CONICET Luis Alberto Romero that he opposed the first article "Turning defeat into victory" , published in the journal The Nation November 18, there have been contributions that enrich the debate initiated by previous historians. On December 6, third in the controversial British historian David Rock, with his article "The other Vuelta de Obligado" in the newspaper La Nacion on that day. Rock enlisted in the liberal mainstream of the history of Argentina, which specializes in the political history of our country, says in the first sections that the decade following 1840, is named in his country, "the hungry forties" ... causing "internal economic pressures that provoke various imperialist adventures abroad, among others, the infamous opium wars against the Chinese empire and intervention of 1845 in the Río de la Plata. "Important historical recognition that, on an act which in the past, when it recognized the intervention, came to say that the intervening powers did so for humanitarian reasons against the supposed tyranny of Juan Manuel de Rosas. According to the English author, his country took part in the Rio de la Plata in 1845, in an imperialist adventure. It is not new for us nationalists, it is for liberals who supported the more unusual versions of the facts of the War of 1845-1846 Paraná.
To Rock, the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado was an almost forgotten event in France and England and compute in this view, a balance of European losses of 25, versus "possibly up to a thousand Argentine" and adds, "the battle reminiscent of typical imperialist episodes in India and Africa, where for every person killed died fifty European natives. " First this was not true, our losses were just over six hundred dead, and the ranks of the enemy body count reached 150 dead and wounded. But this argument served to Rock for denying the epic that O'Donnell gave battle, and states that such a rating could fall, according to the British assessment, at an event "as the first half hour of the battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, in which during that period fell sixty thousand troops against English German machine guns. "
At this point the English author escapes the context of the history of warfare in Argentina. Never occurred in our nation war events on the scale of those that occurred in Europe or in Asia or North America or Africa. This includes everything from the British invasion of 1806, until the Falklands war in 1982, through the war of independence, civil wars, the largest land battle in Argentina, Caseros, with over twenty thousand men apiece, and the War of the Triple Alliance and the intervention Argentina in the Paraguayan War - Bolivian, and the struggle of the Chilean army against the Indians in 1878. The confrontation of forces at that point the river Paraná, Vuelta de Obligado, was an epic, as the disparity of technical means - guns firing explosive striated with a projectile weight that reached up to 80 pounds (approximately 40 Kg) against guns cast iron ball shot, of at most 12 kgs, and more than 120 guns against just 40, made an overwhelming difference in fire, despite the struggle which lasted over nine hours. (1)
As in the two faces of Janus, a professor at the University of California, intends to see the other side of the battle, and among other arguments - colonial confrontation with countless casualties of the "natives" and just a few of the inspectors - the imperialist slaughter of African or Asian style - uses the defeat of Argentina. Undeniably, it could not impede the progress of the fleet up the river, the disparity in strength in technical resources caused a great loss of men in the Argentine forces face a significantly lower number of European crews. But Bound was the first chapter of what happened next. It was a piece in the puzzle, whose total armed, war of Paraná, showed the result of peace agreements and Arana Arana-Southern-Le Predour, for which both England and France recognized the inner nature of Argentina's Paraná River, amends the National flag with 21 guns, and pledged to return the captured ships and repair damaged facilities in acts of war, which they did, England in 1848 and France in 1849.
From the point of view of this overall view of that historic event, Bound was the first major action of that war, followed by smaller stocks and great as the first, (these were Cooper, Acevedo, San Lorenzo, and final battle of the Quebracho Angostura, in all prolonged exchanges of artillery, which in the last battle, was clearly a victory for Argentina in which the fleet took heavy punishment and 7 merchant ships were burned and sunk.) These facts were recognized by the official reports of the fleet chief Admiral Anglo French.
is curious as a historian, professor in the United States in a hierarchy University of California, unaware of data showing that the race will undoubtedly disadvantageous to Argentina, however it was not completely in the ground war, and this was forcing it to start the diplomatic negotiations that led to peace. To the above is also the risk faced by the fleet from falling into the hands of the troops that operated against entrerrianas correntinas the orders of General Peace, who were allied of the controllers. The War of the Paraná, was actually an aspect of something larger than was the war of conservation of Argentina's sovereignty over the territory of the Argentine coast.
On the basis of his argument that disregards the data documented in this story, a way to bolster their anti-nationalist position knowingly, Rock notes that none of the authors that led to his speech - (the relief requested by the liberal?) - Is refer to the background of the inspectors in 1845. The French were actually concentrated in Montevideo. But Rock is not saying that their presence was because in October 1837 with the help of the French fleet unexpectedly present in the River de la Plata, Uruguay's government of Oribe was forced to leave in the hands of Bank Fructuoso the government of his country. Fructuoso Rivera had allied with the unit that Lavalle opposed the Argentine government and plotting his overthrow. At the same time, the French supported the expansive plans Mariscal Santa Cruz, president of the Confederation of Peruvian - Bolivian Confederation war with Argentina. The French money would allow for long years the armies operating unit against the Confederacy, and would support the Uruguayan government in Montevideo during the siege of this city, between 1842 and 1851, when the Great Army, Oribe Urquiza to capitulate.
This intervention on issues of Uruguay, and the alliance with the unit, led to the conflict remained with France in 1838 and completed in October 1840 with the peace treaty between Spain and France, known as a convention Arana - Mackau that date . This convention was signed by Marshal COULD intervention, who in early 1839 took over the section of the Foreign Ministry of France, that understood the conflict with Argentina. He was committed to early 1839, the transfer of six thousand foot French to intervene in fighting between unitary and federal. Marshal Soult warning the deceptions of the French agents to his government, and the lies of the unit and the Uruguayan allied to these, prevented the interventionist adventure. Since then, the French presence was steady against the Argentine government. Samuel Lafon, who profited from the revenue of Customs of Montevideo, ceded to their benefit by the government of Montevideo, the only stronghold unit in the territory east of the River Plate since 1842, was an important piece of business to confront the government lifted Argentina.
is true that in the posterior development of Argentine foreign trade England was a major actor. But the blonde Albion was an important player in world trade, Argentina could not escape the phenomenon of globalization of trade without getting out of the economic and financial rotation that dominated the world he belonged. In short, had defended its sovereignty with the dignity with which pretend to do today and tomorrow, whose symbol is the Vuelta de Obligado.
(1) Parts of general officers Lucio N. Mansilla, Rear Admiral Inglefield to the Admiralty and other reports, published in London and reproduced by the Gazeta Mercantil on May 30, 1846.
To Rock, the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado was an almost forgotten event in France and England and compute in this view, a balance of European losses of 25, versus "possibly up to a thousand Argentine" and adds, "the battle reminiscent of typical imperialist episodes in India and Africa, where for every person killed died fifty European natives. " First this was not true, our losses were just over six hundred dead, and the ranks of the enemy body count reached 150 dead and wounded. But this argument served to Rock for denying the epic that O'Donnell gave battle, and states that such a rating could fall, according to the British assessment, at an event "as the first half hour of the battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, in which during that period fell sixty thousand troops against English German machine guns. "
At this point the English author escapes the context of the history of warfare in Argentina. Never occurred in our nation war events on the scale of those that occurred in Europe or in Asia or North America or Africa. This includes everything from the British invasion of 1806, until the Falklands war in 1982, through the war of independence, civil wars, the largest land battle in Argentina, Caseros, with over twenty thousand men apiece, and the War of the Triple Alliance and the intervention Argentina in the Paraguayan War - Bolivian, and the struggle of the Chilean army against the Indians in 1878. The confrontation of forces at that point the river Paraná, Vuelta de Obligado, was an epic, as the disparity of technical means - guns firing explosive striated with a projectile weight that reached up to 80 pounds (approximately 40 Kg) against guns cast iron ball shot, of at most 12 kgs, and more than 120 guns against just 40, made an overwhelming difference in fire, despite the struggle which lasted over nine hours. (1)
As in the two faces of Janus, a professor at the University of California, intends to see the other side of the battle, and among other arguments - colonial confrontation with countless casualties of the "natives" and just a few of the inspectors - the imperialist slaughter of African or Asian style - uses the defeat of Argentina. Undeniably, it could not impede the progress of the fleet up the river, the disparity in strength in technical resources caused a great loss of men in the Argentine forces face a significantly lower number of European crews. But Bound was the first chapter of what happened next. It was a piece in the puzzle, whose total armed, war of Paraná, showed the result of peace agreements and Arana Arana-Southern-Le Predour, for which both England and France recognized the inner nature of Argentina's Paraná River, amends the National flag with 21 guns, and pledged to return the captured ships and repair damaged facilities in acts of war, which they did, England in 1848 and France in 1849.
From the point of view of this overall view of that historic event, Bound was the first major action of that war, followed by smaller stocks and great as the first, (these were Cooper, Acevedo, San Lorenzo, and final battle of the Quebracho Angostura, in all prolonged exchanges of artillery, which in the last battle, was clearly a victory for Argentina in which the fleet took heavy punishment and 7 merchant ships were burned and sunk.) These facts were recognized by the official reports of the fleet chief Admiral Anglo French.
is curious as a historian, professor in the United States in a hierarchy University of California, unaware of data showing that the race will undoubtedly disadvantageous to Argentina, however it was not completely in the ground war, and this was forcing it to start the diplomatic negotiations that led to peace. To the above is also the risk faced by the fleet from falling into the hands of the troops that operated against entrerrianas correntinas the orders of General Peace, who were allied of the controllers. The War of the Paraná, was actually an aspect of something larger than was the war of conservation of Argentina's sovereignty over the territory of the Argentine coast.
On the basis of his argument that disregards the data documented in this story, a way to bolster their anti-nationalist position knowingly, Rock notes that none of the authors that led to his speech - (the relief requested by the liberal?) - Is refer to the background of the inspectors in 1845. The French were actually concentrated in Montevideo. But Rock is not saying that their presence was because in October 1837 with the help of the French fleet unexpectedly present in the River de la Plata, Uruguay's government of Oribe was forced to leave in the hands of Bank Fructuoso the government of his country. Fructuoso Rivera had allied with the unit that Lavalle opposed the Argentine government and plotting his overthrow. At the same time, the French supported the expansive plans Mariscal Santa Cruz, president of the Confederation of Peruvian - Bolivian Confederation war with Argentina. The French money would allow for long years the armies operating unit against the Confederacy, and would support the Uruguayan government in Montevideo during the siege of this city, between 1842 and 1851, when the Great Army, Oribe Urquiza to capitulate.
This intervention on issues of Uruguay, and the alliance with the unit, led to the conflict remained with France in 1838 and completed in October 1840 with the peace treaty between Spain and France, known as a convention Arana - Mackau that date . This convention was signed by Marshal COULD intervention, who in early 1839 took over the section of the Foreign Ministry of France, that understood the conflict with Argentina. He was committed to early 1839, the transfer of six thousand foot French to intervene in fighting between unitary and federal. Marshal Soult warning the deceptions of the French agents to his government, and the lies of the unit and the Uruguayan allied to these, prevented the interventionist adventure. Since then, the French presence was steady against the Argentine government. Samuel Lafon, who profited from the revenue of Customs of Montevideo, ceded to their benefit by the government of Montevideo, the only stronghold unit in the territory east of the River Plate since 1842, was an important piece of business to confront the government lifted Argentina.
is true that in the posterior development of Argentine foreign trade England was a major actor. But the blonde Albion was an important player in world trade, Argentina could not escape the phenomenon of globalization of trade without getting out of the economic and financial rotation that dominated the world he belonged. In short, had defended its sovereignty with the dignity with which pretend to do today and tomorrow, whose symbol is the Vuelta de Obligado.
(1) Parts of general officers Lucio N. Mansilla, Rear Admiral Inglefield to the Admiralty and other reports, published in London and reproduced by the Gazeta Mercantil on May 30, 1846.
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