Brazilian Conquest of the Banda Oriental 1816-1820

King João, reigning monarch of the Kingdom of Portugal and Brazil (the United Kingdom, as the Rio de Janeiro royalists termed it), regarded the East Bank of the Río de la Plata (present-day Uruguay) as the proper and true boundary of Brazil. In 1816, a wearing campaign was undertaken to seize the Banda Oriental. Over British objections, King João brought veteran troops from Portugal to seize Montevideo and to wage war against the forces of independence-minded José Gervasio Artigas, the father of Uruguay. Artigas was finally ousted in 1820. The region was formally incorporated into the United Kingdom as the Cisplatine Province in 1821.

References

Timelines of War, 315; Military History, 891; Brazil - A Country Study.

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