Great Siege of Montevideo

The Great Siege of Montevideo (Spanish: Sitio Grande or Sitio de Montevideo) was the siege suffered by the city of Montevideo between 1843 and 1851 during the Uruguayan Civil War.[1]

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

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

See also

References

  1. Walter Rela (1998). Uruguay: República Oriental del Uruguay, 1830-1864. Montevideo: ALFAR.

Further reading


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.