The call to arms.(Geographical archive)

Geographical | January 1, 2008 | Copyright

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Troops practise cavalry manoeuvres in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1900. Argentina's national army was established at around the same time as the Independent Republic of Argentina was created after dictator General Juan Manuel Rosas was overthrown in 1852. Rosas, a controversial figure in Argentine history, fle to England, where he became a farmer in Southampton until his death in 1877 The next 30 years saw the foundations of the modern Argentine state being laid, with the creation of a constitution and government. The first president of the ...

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