Celebrating our Bicentennial

                    Manuel Belgrano

                   

 

We chose Manuel Belgrano because was patriot very important for our nation.

Manuel Belgrano was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 3 June, 1770.

He was the fourth son of thirteen brothers, his father was Don Domingo Belgrano and his mother Josefa Gónzales Casero. He studied in Spain at the University of Salamanca in 1786 and at Valladolid, where he graduated with a degree in law in 1793.

After that he was the secretary of the Buenos Aires official merchants’ guild (1794) , a position in which he advocated liberal ideas, particulary in Education and Economic reform.

He received his first military experience during the unsuccessful British invasion of the vice royalty of Rio de la Plata. In 1812 he decreed the adoption of what was became Argentina’s national flag.

Belgrano, like many other leaders of the South American independence movement, favoured the establishment of a monarchical type of government. To find a ruler, he went to Europe with Bernardino Rivadavia, who later became the first president of the Argentine republic. 

He died on June 20, 1820.

Julieta and Cecilia

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