Qualla: La Redota https://qualla.com/la-redota en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/c/b/1/la-redota-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: La Redota https://qualla.com/la-redota La Redota: Introduction https://qualla.com/la-redota/ Photo credit Bicentenario Uruguay, CC BY-SA 2.0. They called it the redota - their own word, a worn-down version of derrota, meaning defeat. It was the bitterest name a people could give their own journey, and it was honest. In October 1811, after a hard-won siege of Montevideo was abandoned through an armistice, José Artigas asked the people of the Banda Oriental to do something extraordinary: to leave everything behind rather than live under returning Spanish rule. They said yes. Whole families packed into wagons and walked away from their farms and towns, following one man north toward the Uruguay River. What looked like a retreat became the founding story of a nation.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/c/b/1/la-redota-wk/6cb1-la-redota-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full La Redota: A Word for Bitter Truth https://qualla.com/la-redota/ Photo credit Bicentenario Uruguay, CC BY-SA 2.0. The name carries the whole emotion of the event. In the everyday Spanish of the River Plate, redota was a deformation of derrota - a word that means at once a defeat, a rout, and a route or path. So the redota was all of those things braided together: the road they walked, the fl...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/c/b/1/la-redota-wk/6cb1-la-redota-a-word-for-bitter-truth.mp3 0:06 2 full La Redota: The People on the Road https://qualla.com/la-redota/ Photo credit Bicentenario Uruguay, CC BY-SA 2.0. This was not an army on the move so much as an entire society. Contemporary accounts describe an immense caravan: men, women, children, and the elderly, with cattle and horses, household goods, even chickens and dogs, trailing behind the militia columns. The march began on 23 Oct...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/c/b/1/la-redota-wk/6cb1-la-redota-the-people-on-the-road.mp3 0:06 3 full La Redota: The Camp at Ayuí https://qualla.com/la-redota/ Photo credit Bicentenario Uruguay, CC BY-SA 2.0. By December the great column reached the Uruguay River and began crossing toward the western bank. There, on the Ayuí stream near Salto, the people made their long encampment - a temporary city in the woods that gathered, by some estimates, around ten thousand souls. They stayed ...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/c/b/1/la-redota-wk/6cb1-la-redota-the-camp-at-ayu.mp3 0:06 4 full La Redota: The Man They Followed https://qualla.com/la-redota/ Photo credit Bicentenario Uruguay, CC BY-SA 2.0. What made thousands abandon their homes for one leader? José Artigas had been a frontier soldier, a man who knew the land and its gaucho horsemen intimately, and who had broken with Spain to fight for a different kind of country - one of provincial autonomy and the dignity of ord...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/c/b/1/la-redota-wk/6cb1-la-redota-the-man-they-followed.mp3 0:06 5 full La Redota: The Road Still Runs https://qualla.com/la-redota/ Photo credit Bicentenario Uruguay, CC BY-SA 2.0. The exodus passed into legend, and Artigas became the father of Uruguayan independence, his image now on its coins and in its squares. In 2011, on the two-hundredth anniversary, Uruguayans retraced the redota across their country, turning the old route of defeat into a pilgrimage...

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