Qualla: Battle of Ituzaingó https://qualla.com/battle-of-ituzaingo en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:58 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Ituzaingó https://qualla.com/battle-of-ituzaingo Battle of Ituzaingó: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-ituzaingo/ Just after six in the morning on 20 February 1827, gunfire broke the quiet of a shallow valley near the Santa Maria River. A stream split the low hills into two, and across that ground roughly fourteen thousand men were about to fight for six hours over the fate of a country that did not yet exist. On one side stood the Imperial Brazilian Army; on the other, the combined cavalry and infantry of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata and their Oriental allies. By the time the smoke cleared, hundreds of soldiers lay dead in the grass, and the battle that history would call Ituzaingo had quietly tilted the map of South America.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/f/8/g/battle-of-ituzaingo-wp/6f8g-battle-of-ituzaing-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Ituzaingó: A Province Worth a War https://qualla.com/battle-of-ituzaingo/ The roots of the fight reached back to 1822, when Brazil won independence from Portugal and absorbed the Banda Oriental, the land that is now Uruguay, as its Cisplatina province. Foreign rule sat badly. In 1825 a band of Orientals raised the flag of rebellion, and when their appe...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/f/8/g/battle-of-ituzaingo-wp/6f8g-battle-of-ituzaing-the-trap-in-the-grass.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Ituzaingó: Six Hours by the Stream https://qualla.com/battle-of-ituzaingo/ The Imperial forces crossed the stream as if to encircle Lavalleja's corps, and at first they pushed the Oriental cavalry back and overran the artillery. Then Alvear sprang his counterattack, his horsemen sweeping across ground far better suited to cavalry than to foot soldiers. ...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/f/8/g/battle-of-ituzaingo-wp/6f8g-battle-of-ituzaing-six-hours-by-the-stream.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Ituzaingó: A Captured March and a New Country https://qualla.com/battle-of-ituzaingo/ Ituzaingo was a tactical victory for the Republicans, though neither side gained the decisive upper hand, and Brazilian naval dominance soon balanced the books at sea. One spoil of the field became legend. Among the captured equipment was the sheet music for a triumphal march, sa...

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