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.
February 2013
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Peru Region
That is why when the directory was attended by sufficient naval forces, relatively well equipped, fitted with foreign crews courageous in the fight at sea and galvanized by the energy and tactical ability of Guillermo Brown, could complete the action of sitiadores troop land and put an end to Montevideo resistance and thereby to the Spanish presence in the silver. Vale recalled that before the eighteenth century Bourbon reforms, the Spanish Empire considered to the region of the Rio de la Plata as peripheral in terms of its vital interests, linked to the extraction of gold and silver to afford frequent wars in which the Empire became involved during the 15th and 16th. The rioplatense region had been the last in being incorporated into the Spanish colonial rule. It was not a region rich in minerals such as Mexico or Peru resources and Furthermore, given its geographical position, represented rather a permanent threat to the integrity of the Spanish colonial policy, as the Rio de la Plata region constituted the favorite field of British smuggling via the Colonia del Sacramento in complicity with Portugal in addition to piracy and trafficking in slaves of African origin by the French, British and Dutch. As a result of the above factors, the Spanish Government considered it necessary to sacrifice the economic interests of the Rio de la Plata in favour of regions more priority than the Rio de la Plata as the cases of Peru, high Peru and Mexico. Infrequently the Spanish authorities sent the funds needed to maintain this region. What's more: Buenos Aires should withstand the negative effects of the 1561 act banning trade in Buenos Aires overseas. Fleets and Galleons system formed by the Spanish Empire to shore up the commercial monopoly clearly showed Crown favored to ports such as Portobelo, Panama and El Callao in Lima, which were those who distributed the products to the rest of the Spanish territory in America, to the detriment of Buenos Aires, which could not trade with the metropolis in a direct way.
