Artigas

The later years of Artigas present the strangest contrast to his early life.

Even then the final hour might have been indefinitely postponed but for the revolt of Ramirez, one of Artigas's own chieftains.

Since Artigas himself vouchsafed little information on the subject, the details of this early career are at best vague.

But on the frontier of Buenos Aires this army joined the popular movement, and fraternised with the barbaric hordes of Artigas.