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Peter Campbell

category international | history and heritage | other press author Monday August 13, 2007 03:12author by Ireland with Jose Artigas-Sudamérica - actividadonline.com.arauthor email mauriciocastaldo at gmail dot comauthor address María Grande-Entre Ríos Report this post to the editors

Sinn Feinn Karai Guasú

Peter Campbell, soldier of the british empire on the S.XIX siecle, desertó (to desert) and live with gauchos and indios charrúas (sorry, I can't speak english). Luego fue soldado (soldier) de José Gervasio Artigas, en la Liga Federal sudamericana.

Quisiéramos ayuda para encontrar a familiares, en Irlanda y/o en Escocia, de Peter Campbell para realizar un homenaje histórico.

Es un deber de los militantes socialistas artiguistas sudamericanos.

Un abrazo

Prof. Mauricio Castaldo
Secretario de Formación del sindicato docente AGMER en María Grande
Coordinador de actividadonline.com.ar

María Grande-Provincia de Entre Ríos
Argentina-Sudamérica

Related Link: http://actividadonline.com.ar
author by The Abovepublication date Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:17author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The contactor above who includes an email and an address is trying to contact family members
of Peter Campell to create a historical legacy of his activity in Argentina. Anyone with documentation,
photos, letters etc can contact the addresses.

[i Hope that they have employed and english language interpreter]

author by old timerpublication date Mon Aug 13, 2007 16:19author address author phone Report this post to the editors

He went off to join the Brits around the time of the Act of Union. He was a little gurrier of a cur, did an apprentice in tannery & well as Edmundo Murray writes :-
- Campbell, Peter (1780-c1832), naval officer and founder of the Uruguayan navy, was born in Ireland in 1780. Little is known about Campbell's early years in Ireland, except that he was probably apprenticed as a tanner. He enlisted in the 71st Highland Regiment, one of the divisions that in July 1805 sailed for the Cape of Good Hope. In 1806 these troops invaded Buenos Aires under William Carr Beresford. After the British campaigns failed in their attempt and the regiment withdrew, Campbell was one of the soldiers who managed to remain in the River Plate. He joined the patriot ranks as a guerrilla leader, harassing Spanish forces both on land and on the Paraná river. He was notorious for his dexterity in gaucho-style duel, wielding a long knife in one hand and using a poncho wrapped around the other arm as a protective measure. He carried two riding pistols, a sabre, and a large knife in a leather sheath for his personal protection, and was assisted by a Tipperary-born gaucho known as 'Don Eduardo'.

Campbell rose to prominence as a superb guerrilla fighter, serving under José Artigas, the caudillo of a region which encompassed the present-day Argentine provinces of Entre Ríos and Corrientes, and much of Uruguay, a man regarded as one of Uruguay's founding fathers. Peter Campbell played a prominent role in the affairs of Corrientes province, and for a period after 1819 acted as its deputy governor. He had a notable influence on the tactics employed by the local military forces, first against the Spaniards during the War of Independence, and later against Buenos Aires in the civil wars that followed Argentine sovereignty.

Peter Campbell was responsible for establishing a regiment of mounted Tapé indigenous people, who were feared both as a cavalry and infantry force because their tactics were so difficult to counteract. Armed with rifles with long bayonets attached to them, his indigenous force was trained to charge the enemy on horseback at great speed before dismounting and opening fire with their rifles. Campbell's military prowess and organisational ability were not confined to terra firma. In 1814 he began putting together a squadron of river vessels to support Artigas on the Paraná. In 1818 Peter Campbell took charge of the second squadron of the Uruguayan naval forces, based in Goya and Esquina. He became naval commander-in-chief of the region and the scourge of the Paraguayan dictator Francia's river fleet. On 21 August 1818 Artigas appointed Campbell as the first naval commander of the patriot fleet. It is on the basis of this appointment that the Irishman is acknowledged as the founder of the Uruguayan navy. In September 1818 Peter Campbell managed to seize two vessels carrying arms for the Paraguayan army. Between January and March 1819, together with the land forces of governor López, Campbell besieged the town of Capilla del Rosario. On 10 March 1919 the Uruguayan army won the Battle of Barrancas against the army of Buenos Aires. Advancing on the Argentine city, the combined federalist forces defeated the porteños at Cepeda (1 February 1820) and San Nicolás (13 February 1820).

However, in the final naval battle against Monteverde on 30 July 1820, Artigas was defeated by Ramírez, a rival warlord from Entre Ríos province. Campbell, who initially succeeded in escaping, was captured and banished in shackles to Paraguay. The dictator Francia, instead of putting his former foe to death, spared Campbell's life, possibly out of respect for his adversary's courage and military prowess. Peter Campbell was allowed to settle in the Paraguayan town of Neembucú, where he returned to his former trade of tanner. There is disagreement over the location and date of his death, which occurred around 1832. After his burial place in Villa del Pilar was discovered in 1961, his remains were handed over to Uruguay for reinterment in Montevideo on 18 May 1961, as befitted the founder of that country's navy.


Perchance this is the wrong website to find skions of the Campbell Clan? it's like he wasn't a Zapatista or an internationalist (our type of internationalist) was he?

 
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