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- Title
British Army, Irish Soldiers the 1806 invasion of Buenos Aires.
- Authors
Byrne, Thomas
- Abstract
In June 1806, British troops disembarked from a small squadron of ships moored in the River Plate and made ready to attack Buenos Aires. The commanding naval officer of the flotilla was Commodore Sir Home Riggs Popham (1762-1820), a man from an Anglo-Irish family. Heading the land forces, and destined to be the first British Governor in South America if the attempt succeeded, was Brigadier General William Carr Beresford (1768-1854), an illegitimate son of the first marquess of Waterford in the Irish peerage. A high proportion of the soldiers onshore were also Irishmen. Historians have described the British invasion of 1806-1807 as forming the first stage of Argentinean-British relations and also of establishing the first tentative elements of an Irish community in Argentina. In this article, Thomas Byrne examines the events that highlight the substantial Irish involvement in the 1806 invasion, and explains the significance of this period in the context of Irish relations with South America.
- Subjects
BUENOS Aires (Argentina); ARGENTINA; UNITED Kingdom; ENGLISH Invasions of Argentina, 1806-1807; IRISH people; POPHAM, Home Riggs; BERESFORD, William Carr; BRITISH military history -- 1789-1820; 19TH century British naval history; ARGENTINA-Great Britain relations; ARGENTINE history, 1776-1810
- Publication
Irish Migration Studies in Latin America, 2010, Vol 7, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1661-6065
- Publication type
Article