Qualla: Battle of Masoller https://qualla.com/battle-of-masoller 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 Masoller https://qualla.com/battle-of-masoller Battle of Masoller: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-masoller/ A Mauser bullet, fired across open grassland on 1 September 1904, did more than wound one man. It closed an era. Aparicio Saravia - the last of Uruguay's gaucho caudillos, leading mounted lancers against an army equipped with modern rifles and Krupp artillery - rode at the head of his charge at Masoller and was shot through the abdomen. The battle was the final clash of his revolt, and his death nine days later marked the true end of the intermittent civil war that had bled through nearly the whole of nineteenth-century Uruguay. The country that emerged from this quiet stretch of border country would be governed by ballots, not lances.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/f/2/p/battle-of-masoller-wp/6f2p-battle-of-masoller-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Masoller: The Last Man on Horseback https://qualla.com/battle-of-masoller/ Aparicio Saravia was born in 1856 in Cerro Largo, the fourth of thirteen children of a Brazilian immigrant family whose lands straddled the frontier with Rio Grande do Sul. He and his brother Gumercindo became, almost by accident, the last of the gaucho caudillos - leaders who su...

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