A few years of the bicentennial of the revolution the homeland was born on 25 may? On May 25 was held 197 th anniversary of the formation of the first Government Junta, called may, event that would begin the road to the Declaration of independence in 1816. Along with the division of the Viceroyalty of Peru, Act which gives life to the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata in 1776, proceeded to the creation of the Naval Station in Montevideo. His mission was to guard the river and protect the Falkland Islands from the British desires. Four of the largest ships that formed the major General Pedro de Cevallos expedition destined to conquer and dislodge the Portuguese from Colonia del Sacramento, consolidating the Hispanic presence in the Banda Oriental as well as prevent further diplomatic attempts to Lusitanian derecuperar so disputed Citadel, were affected in the service of the body which, in its early days, developed an intense activity and took on a role more than relevant in that period. The successive naval commanders of the base and its officers were notorious noblemen, graduates in companies of marine guards of Cadiz, Cartagena and Ferrol, which as such had among their privileges and obligations, be custodians of real people in the Navy ships and occupy a place of honor next to the Walonas guards in the land formations. Therefore, they did not accept that nobody put into question or endanger the divine right of the King on his subjects in the peninsula or on this side of the ocean. His performance during the British invasions of 1806 and 1807 so proved it ample way. Equal attitude taken after the abdication and comfortable imprisonment of King Fernando VII, faced the Board of Mayo that the Central Board rejected or of the Council of Regency, custodians of the sovereignty of the monarch incapable of exercising.