Great Siege of Montevideo

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The Great Siege of Montevideo (Spanish: Sitio Grande or Sitio de Montevideo) was the siege suffered by the city of Montevideo between 1843 and 1851 during the Uruguayan Civil War.^[1]

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 père, The New Troy (1850).

See also[]

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

References[]

Further reading[]

• David McLean, "Garibaldi in Uruguay: A Reputation Reconsidered", The English Historical Review, Vol. 113, No. 451 (Apr., 1998), pp. 351–66.
• (1981). Harbottle's Dictionary of Battles. Van Nostrand Reinhold. ISBN 0-442-22336-6.

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