“MONSTROUS AND ILLEGAL PROCEEDINGS”: LAW ...
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Manuel Oribe traveled to Buenos Aires. There, they lobbied the government to support their efforts to recover the Banda for the United Provinces. The Brazilian empire’s tenuous control over its Cisplatine Province finally faltered in early 1825. Thirty-three exiles from the Banda crossed the Uruguay River under Lavalleja’s command, touching off a political revolution against the occupying Brazilians. By October, an oriental congress elected deputies to the national assembly in the United Provinces, formally incorporating the Banda back into the territories of the old viceroyalty. 42 With the rebellious Banda now part of the United Provinces, the Brazilian empire declared war against the Argentines as well. The conflict quickly devolved into a brutal war between the two powers on the opposite ends of the Río de la Plata over the possession of the Uruguayan borderlands between them. Lavalleja’s forces quickly captured much of the Banda’s countryside, leaving Brazilian troops hemmed in on the coast. The Brazilian emperor Pedro then personally traveled to the southern borderlands to take command of military operations. The two forces finally clashed when armies from the United Provinces invaded Rio Grande do Sul in early 1827. In February, imperial forces met the advancing Spanish at Ituzaingó. There, the United Provinces’ army battered the Brazilians, effectively ending their efforts to retake its rebellious province militarily. A year latter in 1828, Fructuoso Rivera, one of Lavalleja’s oriental lieutenants, raided Brazilian territories throughout eastern Missiones. Rivera’s campaign devastated the region while securing resources for Argentine forces and fame for the oriental commander. After these reversals, the imperial government began to look for a diplomatic solution to a conflict that threatened their still very tenuous authority. Within the empire, opposition to Pedro’s increasingly ineffective rule rose. The regime survived, but only barely. Eventually, the discredited 42 Street, Artigas and the Emancipation of Uruguay, 340-46. 58
Pedro abdicated the throne in 1831, leaving power to a cadre of advisers around his young son. 43 Despite their relative military successes, the United Provinces could never score a decisive victory that could end the borderlands war. Imperial armies continued to menace the Banda. The ebb and flow of constant military movements again devastated the borderlands and drained resources away from the combatants. 44 While the Brazilian empire sagged under the weight of the conflict, the much more fragile national government in the United Provinces collapsed altogether. Even before the war intensified in 1826, Rivadavia faced fierce federalist opposition to the new national constitution. The war then strained the fragile finances sustaining Rivadavia’s government. As the new state faltered, federalists throughout the countryside rose to demand that the substantial powers accorded to the new national government under the constitution be rolled back. In 1827, Manuel Dorrego, the federalist general and governor of Buenos Aires Province, forged a new Federal Pact designed to unify provincial opposition to the porteño centrists. The final act in the unitarist tragedy occurred when the lines of credit supporting Rivadavia’s government collapsed on the London markets. Facing a financial and military disaster, Rivadavia renounced the presidency and fled the country. The national government imploded with his departure, leaving behind a fragmented confederation of provinces. Dorrego entered the city and established provincial authority over the former national capital. Once again, political efforts to unify the old viceregal territories under a new national government had failed. 45 43 Adelman, Sovereignty and Revolution, 391. 44 Street, Artigas and the Emancipation of Uruguay, 351-66. 45 Adelman, Sovereignty and Revolution, 386-91. 59
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Manuel Oribe traveled to Buenos Aires. There, they lobbied the government to support<br />
their efforts to recover the Banda for the United Provinces. The Brazilian empire’s tenuous<br />
control over its Cisplatine Province finally faltered in early 1825. Thirty-three exiles from<br />
the Banda crossed the Uruguay River under Lavalleja’s command, touching off a political<br />
revolution against the occupying Brazilians. By October, an oriental congress elected deputies<br />
to the national assembly in the United Provinces, formally incorporating the Banda back into<br />
the territories of the old viceroyalty. 42<br />
With the rebellious Banda now part of the United Provinces, the Brazilian empire<br />
declared war against the Argentines as well. The conflict quickly devolved into a brutal war<br />
between the two powers on the opposite ends of the Río de la Plata over the possession of<br />
the Uruguayan borderlands between them. Lavalleja’s forces quickly captured much of the<br />
Banda’s countryside, leaving Brazilian troops hemmed in on the coast. The Brazilian<br />
emperor Pedro then personally traveled to the southern borderlands to take command of<br />
military operations. The two forces finally clashed when armies from the United Provinces<br />
invaded Rio Grande do Sul in early 1827. In February, imperial forces met the advancing<br />
Spanish at Ituzaingó. There, the United Provinces’ army battered the Brazilians, effectively<br />
ending their efforts to retake its rebellious province militarily. A year latter in 1828,<br />
Fructuoso Rivera, one of Lavalleja’s oriental lieutenants, raided Brazilian territories<br />
throughout eastern Missiones. Rivera’s campaign devastated the region while securing<br />
resources for Argentine forces and fame for the oriental commander. After these reversals,<br />
the imperial government began to look for a diplomatic solution to a conflict that threatened<br />
their still very tenuous authority. Within the empire, opposition to Pedro’s increasingly<br />
ineffective rule rose. The regime survived, but only barely. Eventually, the discredited<br />
<br />
42 Street, Artigas and the Emancipation of Uruguay, 340-46.<br />
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