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| | Juan Manuel de Rosas |
 | | When Governor Rodriguez, of Buenos Ayres, was threatened with invasion in 1820 by the governors of Santa Fe and Entre Rios, he appointed Rosas captain of militia, and the latter, with a force of 600 gauchos, assisted in the battles of San Nicolas and Pavon. |
 | | Although his army was at first defeated, and Gem Lavalle invaded the Argentine at the head of an army, Rosas organized a force the command of which he gave to General Oribe, and began a war against the Unitarian chiefs of the interior, and a price was set on their heads. |
 | | Rosas, with an army of about equal force, was intrenched at Palermo and Santos Lugares, but at the first attack of Urquiza his troops wavered. |
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