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  1. The British invasions of the River Plate were two unsuccessful British attempts to seize control of the Spanish colony of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, located around the Río de la Plata in South America – in present-day Argentina and Uruguay.

    • 1806–1807
    • Spanish victory
  2. The British invasions of the River Plate were two unsuccessful British attempts to seize control of the Spanish colony of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, located around the Río de la Plata in South America – in present-day Argentina and Uruguay.

    • 1806-1807
    • Spanish victory[1] [2]
  3. Efforts by a British expeditionary force (1806–1807) to take Buenos Aires from Spain are known as the Río de la Plata British Invasions. In 1804 Spain aligned with Napoleonic France, only to have its navy devastated at Trafalgar in 1805.

  4. The British Invasions of the River Plate 35 There were a few errors in this letter. General Miranda was not in London at that time; he was in Caracas. With the few American and English soldiers he had managed to recruit, he was trying to overthrow Spanish rule and promote independence. Popham was obviously unaware of this. He also misunderstood, or

    • Klaus Gallo
    • 2001
  5. The British invasions of the River Plate were two unsuccessful British attempts to seize control of the Spanish colony of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, located around the Río de la Plata in South America – in present-day Argentina and Uruguay.

    • 1806-1807
    • Spanish victory
  6. In 1806 a British expeditionary force captured Buenos Aires. Over the next eighteen months, Britain was sucked into a costly campaign on the far side of the world. The Spaniards were humbled on the battlefield and Montevideo was taken by storm, but the campaign ended in disaster when 6000 redcoats and riflemen surrendered following a bloody ...

  7. Barnsley, UK. Abstract. In 1806 a British expeditionary force captured Buenos Aires. Over the next eighteen months, Britain was sucked into a costly campaign on the far side of the world.

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