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	Uruguay FAMOUS URUGUAYANS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Juan Antonio Lavalleja (1786?–1853) directed the uprising that established Uruguay's independence in 1828.
		Juan Zorrilla de San Martín (1855–1933) was a 19th-century romantic poet whose finest work, Tabaré, describes Uruguay at the time of the Spanish conquest.
		The painter Juan Manuel Blanes (1830–1901) is best known for his Episode of the Yellow Fever.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Americas/Uruguay-FAMOUS-URUGUAYANS.html (303 words)

	Juan Antonio Lavalleja
		LAVALLEJA, Juan Antonio (lah-val-yay'-hah), Uruguayan soldier, born in Montevideo, 18 July, 1795; died there, 23 October, 1853.
		On 19 April, 1825, a company of patriots of Uruguay, under the command of Colonel Lavalleja, landed in Boca de Gutierrez, Uruguay, with the intention of freeing their country from Brazilian control.
		In 1832 General Lavalleja headed a revolution against the first government of Uruguay, but was defeated and obliged to take refuge in Brazil on 20 September of that year.
	www.famousamericans.net /juanantoniolavalleja (369 words)

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