Uruguay became independent from spain as a result of the battle of las piedras, on what date?
Uruguay independence from brazil
True or false uruguay has one of latin america's highest adult literacy rates..
Juan Antonio Lavalleja
19th-century Uruguayan revolutionary, general, and political figure (1784–1853)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Lavalleja and the second or maternal family name is de la Torre.
Juan Antonio Lavalleja y de la Torre (June 24, 1784 – October 22, 1853)[1] was an Uruguayanlibertador, revolutionary, military general, and political figure.[2] He was born in Minas, in a region now named after him as the Lavalleja Department of Uruguay.
Pre-Independence role
Lavalleja led the group called the Thirty-Three Orientals during Uruguay's Declaration of Independence from the Empire of Brazil in 1825. His leadership of this group has taken on somewhat mythic proportions in popular Uruguayan historiography.
Before leading the Thirty-Three, he had been captured by the Portuguese in 1818 and returned to Uruguay in 1821.[1] Lavalleja first met Fructuoso Rivera, another leading Uruguayan politici
