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San Martin was born in Yapeyu, in the Argentine province of corrientes, On February 25th 1778. He served in the army of Spain during the wars against the French and in 1808 he fought in the battle of Baylen against Napoleon's army. In 1811 he resigned to his military career in Spain and boarded the sail ship George Canning from England to Buenos Aires, where he arrived on March 9th 1812
San Martin was born in Yapeyu, in the Argentine province of corrientes, On February 25th 1778. He served in the army of Spain during the wars against the French and in 1808 he fought in the battle of Baylen against Napoleon's army. In 1811 he resigned to his military career in Spain and boarded the sail ship George Canning from England to Buenos Aires, where he arrived on March 9th 1812
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San Martin was born in Yapeyu, in the Argentine province of corrientes, On February 25th 1778. He served in the army of Spain during the wars against the French and in 1808 he fought in the battle of Baylen against Napoleon's army. In 1811 he resigned to his military career in Spain and boarded the sail ship George Canning from England to Buenos Aires, where he arrived on March 9th 1812
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San Martin was born in Yapeyu, in the Argentine province of Corrientes, beside the mighty Uruguay river, on February 25th 1778.
His father was Don
Juan de San Martin and his mother, Doña Gregoria Matorras,
In 1786 he was transferred to Spain with his family, where he
studied in the Noble Seminary of Madrid and, in 1789, he initiated his military career in the regiment of Murcia. he served in the army of Spain during the wars against the French and in 1808 he fought in the battle of Baylen against Napoleon´s army.
In the city of Cadiz he met other South American officers and
joined the lodges that promoted the Independence. In 1811 he resigned to his military career in Spain and boarded the sail ship George Canning from England to Buenos Aires, where he arrived on March 9th 1812 accompanied by other friends.
The independent government of Buenos Aires accepted the
services of San Martin, in that same year he married Maria Remedios de Escalada, that belonged to a distinguished family of the country. On February 3rd, 1813, the Mounted Grenadiers fought and won their first combat, near the ravines of San Lorenzo.
In January of 1814, San Martin took control of the North Army,
from the hands of its former general, Belgrano, that had returned defeated from the Alto Peru -today the republic of Bolivia-, and since then, they establish a long friendship.
A disease forced him to request license and obtained from the
government the nomination of Governor of the Cuyo province. There he recovered and began to prepare an army to cross the Andes.
In the year 1816 he sent a delegation to the congress that
met in Tucuman, with express orders to insist on the declaration of independence. Because of his insistence, the declaration of the independence from the rule of Spain of the Provincias Unidas del Rio de la Plata -that was the primitive name of what now is the Argentine Republic- was acclaimed in that congress the 9 of July of that year.
From Mendoza he prepared an army. All the people
contributed with their work and goods to make the dangerous expedition.
In January of 1817 the crossing
of the army began. They crossed divided into two columns by the passage of Los Patos and the one of Uspallata, and the two columns met in Santa Rosa of the Andes.
On February 12, 1817 few days after the passage of the
Andes, the army, that was given the name "Army of the Andes", wins the battle of Chacabuco and some days later, the Liberator entered the city of Santiago de Chile. The Town hall met the day 18th and designated San Martin Supreme Director, but he resigned that honor and then general Bernardo OHiggins was elected for the position.
On august 3rd , 1823 his wife died in Buenos
Aires. The 10th. of February of 1824, unhappy by the civil wars in the Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata, he sailed to France with his little daughter, Mercedes. There he lived until his death, on august 17, 1850.