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José Gervasio Artigas Arnal (June 19, 1764 – September 23, 1850) was a soldier and statesman who is regarded as a national hero in Uruguay and the father of Uruguayan nationhood.

Born in Montevideo, Artigas enlisted in the Spanish military in 1797 and fought the British in the Anglo-Spanish War. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American wars of independence, Artigas supported the Primera Junta in Buenos Aires against Spain. He defeated the Spanish royalists at Las Piedras and laid siege to Montevideo, but was forced to withdraw in the face of Portuguese intervention. Artigas subsequently broke with the centralist government of Buenos Aires and took over Montevideo in 1815. He then oversaw the creation of the Federal League, an alliance of six provinces under a federal style of government. In 1816, the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves invaded the Banda Oriental, eventually annexing it as a province. Artigas was driven into Paraguay, where he lived in exile until his death in 1850. His remains were re-interred at the Central Cemetery of Montevideo in 1855, and in 1977 they were transferred to the Artigas Mausoleum.

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Jose Gervasio Artigas (19 June 1764-23 September 1850) was a national hero of Uruguay who led Cisplatine resistance to the Unitarios of Argentina during the Argentine Civil War and against the Portuguese-Brazilian invasions of 1811, 1816, and 1820.

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Jose Gervasio Artigas was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on 19 June 1764, the grandson of immigrants from Spain, Argentina, and the Canary Islands. He joined the Spanish Army in 1797 with the rank of lieutenant and fought against the British during the Napoleonic Wars, defending Buenos Aires in 1806 and being captured during the fall of Montevideo. He was promoted to Captain in 1809, and, a year later, he supported the overthrow of Spanish rule in South America. Artigas became the leader of a guerrilla army which captured many villages in the Banda Oriental and fought against Spanish royalist forces. In 1811, the Royalists summoned the aid of Portugal to assist them in restoring order to Uruguay, whose capital of Montevideo was on the verge of falling to the patriots. Argentina made peace with the Royalist leader Francisco Javier de Elio, recognizing him as Viceroy of the Rio de la Plata, betraying the Uruguayan revolutionaries. Artigas led a massive exodus from Bando Oriental to Salto Chico, where the Argentine supreme director Gervasio Antonio de Posadas placed a bounty on Artigas' head. Artigas escaped when Carlos Maria de Alvear captured Montevideo, but, in 1815, he liberated Montevideo from the Argentine forces and agreed to join the other Argentine provinces in forming a federal government. However, the growing power of the Federales worried the centralist Argentine government and the monarchist Portuguese government, and, in 1816, Portugal invaded Uruguay with the goal of destroying Artigas and his revolution. On 20 January 1817, Montevideo fell to Carlos Frederico Lecor's Portuguese forces, and Artigas was captured before escaping to Paraguay in September 1820. He died after a lon

Uruguayan military leader during the War for Independence

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Artigas and the second or maternal family name is Arnal.

"Artigas" redirects here. For other uses, see Artigas (disambiguation).

José Gervasio Artigas Arnal (Spanish pronunciation:[xoˈsexeɾˈβa.sjoaɾˈti.ɣasaɾˈnal]; June 19, 1764 – September 23, 1850) was a soldier and statesman who is regarded as a national hero in Uruguay and the father of Uruguayan nationhood.

Born in Montevideo, Artigas enlisted in the Spanishmilitary in 1797 and fought the British in the Anglo-Spanish War. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American wars of independence, Artigas supported the Primera Junta in Buenos Aires against Spain. He defeated the Spanish royalists at Las Piedras and laid siege to Montevideo, but was forced to withdraw in the face of Portuguese intervention. Artigas subsequently broke with the centralist government of Buenos Aires and took over Montevideo in 1815. He then oversaw the creation of the Federal League, an alliance of six provinces under a federal style of government. In 1816, the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves invaded the Banda Oriental, eventually annexing it as a province. Artigas was driven into Paraguay, where he lived in exile until his death in 1850. His remains were re-interred at the Central Cemetery of Montevideo in 1855, and in 1977 they were transferred to the Artigas Mausoleum.

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Artigas was born in Montevideo on June 19, 1764. His grandparents were from Zaragoza, Buenos Aires and Tenerife (Canary Islands). His grandparents fought in the War of the Spanish Succession and moved to the Americas to escape from poverty, settling in Buenos Aires in 1716. Artigas was the son of Martín José Artigas and Francisca Antonia Arnal, who came from a wealthy family. His parents enrolled him in the Colegio de San Bernardino