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Battle of Arroyo Grande

1842 engagement during the Uruguayan Civil War

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ4870349 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Battle of Arroyo Grande took place on 6 December 1842 and was a major battle of the Uruguayan Civil War.

Battle

At Arroyo Grande, the federal forces, or blancos, of Manuel Oribe defeated the colorados of Fructuoso Rivera, having been in conflict with them since 1838.

Aftermath

Following the battle, Oribe followed up his victory over the Colorados by marching to and besieging Montevideo thus beginning the Great Siege of Montevideo.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Battle of Arroyo Grande” is 1842 engagement during the Uruguayan Civil War. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Battle, Arroyo and Grande, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1842, 1838—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Battle, Arroyo and Grande is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “1842 engagement during the Uruguayan Civil War” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4870349. The Library of Congress control number is sh85007443. Authority coordinates are -30.950, -59.470. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1842 and 1838.

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This entry incorporates text from “Battle of Arroyo Grande” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.