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Estanislao Lopez
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Estanislao Lopez (17861838) was a governor and caudillo of the , between 1818 and 1838, a hero of provincial federalism and an ally of Juan Manuel de Rosas.
Lopez fought in the retake of Buenos Aires from the British invasion of 1806, in the Argentine War of Independence, and then in the Argentine civil wars. Under the command of Manuel Belgrano (creator of the Argentine flag) in 1810, he was held prisoner in Montevideo.
In 1816 he led his men in an uprising against Buenos Aires, where the Buenos Aires army under ...
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