biography
| name: |
Artigas, José Gervasio
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pronunciation:
[ah(r)teegas]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1764–1850)
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| biography:
| National hero of Uruguay, born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He became the most important local patriot leader in the wars of independence against Spain, and also resisted the centralizing pretensions of Buenos Aires. He spent the last 30 years of his life in exile in Paraguay. |
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