Great Siege of Montevideo

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Great Siege of Montevideo
Part of the Uruguayan Civil War and the Platine War
Date 16 November 1843 – 8 October 1851 (7 years, 10 months, 21 days) Location Montevideo, Uruguay Result The siege is relieved after the intervention of the Empire of Brazil and the Entre Ríos province of Argentina.
Belligerents
Besiegers: Gobierno del Cerrito Argentine Confederation Supported by: Federalist Party (Argentina) Entre Ríos (1843-1850)	Besieged: Gobierno de la Defensa Unitarian Party (Argentina) Supported by:  Empire of Brazil Entre Ríos (1851) Corrientes (1851) Italian Redshirts  United Kingdom  France Riograndense Republic (1843-1845)
Commanders and leaders
Manuel Oribe Ignacio Oribe Ángel Pacheco Justo José de Urquiza (1843-1850) William Brown	Joaquín Suárez Melchor Pacheco y Obes José María Paz Martín Rodríguez José Rondeau Luís Alves de Lima e Silva Justo José de Urquiza (1851) Giuseppe Garibaldi Jean-Christophe Thiébaut
Strength
1843:[1] 3630 3550 1848:[2] 7000 1851:[3][4] 11,000-14,000	1843:[1][5][6] 3000-8000 1500-2000 400-600 500 1851:[7][8][9](Reinforcements) 12,000-19,000 5000 1500

The Great Siege of Montevideo (Spanish: Gran Sitio de Montevideo), named as Sitio Grande in Uruguayan historigraphy, was the siege suffered by the city of Montevideo between 1843 and 1851 during the Uruguayan Civil War.^[10]

In practice, this siege meant that Uruguay had two parallel governments:

• Gobierno de la Defensa in Montevideo, led by Joaquín Suárez (1843 – 1852)
• Gobierno del Cerrito (with headquarters in the present-day neighborhood of Cerrito de la Victoria), ruling the rest of the country, led by Manuel Oribe (1843 – 1851)

The siege inspired a book by the French writer Alexandre Dumas, The New Troy (1850).

See also[]

• Gobierno de la Defensa
• Gobierno del Cerrito
• Uruguayan Civil War

References[]

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