• pipi1234@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    There weren’t empty at the time of the British invasion.

    There was an Argentinian settlement with a governor and a military garrison.

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      No garrison.

      Buenos Aires attempted to gain influence over the settlement by installing a garrison in October 1832, which mutinied within a month