Part of the Uruguayan Civil War and the Platine War
Date
16 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:
Cerrito Government
Argentina
Supported by:
Federalist Party
Besieged:
Defense Government
Unitarian Party
Supported by:
Empire of Brazil
Entre Ríos (1851)
Corrientes (1851)
Italian Redshirts
United Kingdom
France
Piratini (1843-1845)
Commanders and leaders
Manuel Oribe
Ignacio Oribe [es]
Ángel Pacheco
William Brown
J. J. de Urquiza (1843-1850)
Joaquín Suárez
Melchor Pacheco
José María Paz
Martín Rodríguez
José Rondeau
Count of Caxias
J. J. de Urquiza (1851)
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Jean Thiebaut [pt]
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)
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t
e
Uruguayan Civil War
Carpintería
Yucutujá
Yí
French blockade of the Río de la Plata
Palmar
Arroyo Grande
Montevideo
India Muerta
San Antonio
Cerro de las Ánimas
Caseros
v
t
e
Platine War
Montevideo
Río de la Plata
Uruguay campaign
Paraná River
Tonelero Pass
Álvarez Field
Marques Bridge
Caseros
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]
In practice, this siege meant that Uruguay had two parallel governments:
Gobierno de la Defensa in Montevideo, led by Joaquín Suárez (1843 – 1852)
Gobierno del Cerrito (with headquarters in the present-day neighborhood of Cerrito de la Victoria), ruling the rest of the country, led by Manuel Oribe (1843 – 1851)
The siege inspired a book by the French writer Alexandre Dumas, The New Troy (1850).
^ abRela 1998, pp. 64 and 91.
^Casas 2005, p. 255.
^Solari 1951, p. 146.
^Saldías 1978, p. 15.
^Granaderos - Historial. Cronología 1835-1846
^Núñez 1979, p. 3.
^Salgado 1943, pp. 7.
^Levene 1939, pp. 96.
^Walter Rela (1998). Uruguay: República Oriental del Uruguay, 1830-1864. Montevideo: ALFAR.
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