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It is known to those who think of Chacabuco and Maipú, of Navarro and Monte Caseros, only as of spots upon the map; let it, therefore, suffice to say that Quiroga was beaten decisively, unmistakably, terribly.
Revolutions against his authority broke out, and in July of 1853, some eighteen months after the Battle of Caseros, General Urquiza was conveyed from Buenos Aires in a United States man-of-war to his head-quarters in his own province of Entre Rios, where he remained, leading a semi-private life in the enjoyment of his vast estates.
A large army composed of Argentines, Brazilians, and Uruguayans, under the joint command of the Brazilian Marquis de Caxias and General Urquiza, crossed the Paraná River, invaded the province of Buenos Aires, defeated Rosas's troops, and advanced on the capital. On February 3, 1852, the fateful Battle of Caseros was fought, rather less than ten miles from the town of Buenos Aires.
The portraits in our drawing-room The Dictator Rosas who was like an Englishman The strange face of his wife, Encarnacion The traitor Urquiza The Minister of War, his peacocks, and his son Home again from the city The War deprives us of our playmate Natalia, our shepherd's wife Her son, Medardo The Alcalde our grand old man Battle of Monte Caseros The defeated army Demands for fresh horses In peril My father's shining defects His pleasure in a thunder storm A childlike trust in his fellow-men Soldiers turn upon their officer A refugee given up and murdered Our Alcalde again On cutting throats Ferocity and cynicism Native blood-lust and its effect on a boy's mind Feeling about Rosas A bird poem or tale Vain search for lost poem and story of its authorship The Dictator's daughter Time, the old god.
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