Talk:Argentina-Brazil War

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oth Brazil and Argentina and Uruguay lost, mind you. User:Ejrrjs says What? 20:23, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Confederation with Argentina

The article says "[...] and decided to join a confederation with Argentina." That isn't really precise, as the Banda Oriental -Uruguay- was already considered part of Argentina, being part of the United Provinces of the River Plate: by that time there was no notion of Uruguay as an independent country but as part of a confederation of provinces that had Argentina as an informal name, officialized when the Banda Uruguay had already been separated.

The congress that met in La Florida in 1825 only reaffirmed for legal and symbolic purposes that the Banda Oriental was part of the Provincias Unidas, but no one except Brazil would have cuestioned that before the war; being against Rosas wasn't a reason for not being part of the Provincias Unidas, as many provinces were governed by Unitarian caudillos opposed to him. If Uruguay is now an independent country, and with this I'm not cuestioning its independence, it is thanks to British commercial interests, and when Argentines say that "Uruguay es una provincia argentina" it's not -on most cases- because of some sort of nazism or expansionism, but because of recognizing in some way the Banda Oriental as one more of the provinces that, by their own will, form the Argentine Nation. --200.85.112.116 00:55, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

You've already shown you know more about this than me (I mean it, not sarcastic), so why don't you integrate the above into the article? I only thought an article was needed, if only as a stub mentioning the historical setting. I basically learned about this through Pergolini's show and after writing the article for Carmen de Patagones... --Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 01:52, 26 December 2005 (UTC)