Montevideo, city of, 46, 48-9;
a Governor appointed, 50;
seat of Viceroy after the revolution of Buenos Aires, 56;
siege during revolution, 60, 62;
a fresh siege 64-5;
capitulation, 68;
occupied by Alvear, 70;
evacuated, 70;
entered by Otorgues, 71;
captured by Brazilians, 75;
besieged by the Thirty-Three, 103;
entered by provisional Government, 106;
in revolt, 110;
the Nine Years' Siege, 114-5;
revolution of 1851, 120;
seized by the Colorados, 121;
population of, 151;
description of, 152-60;
surroundings of, 161-2;
port works, 304
Montevideo, department, 271
Moreau, French adventurer, 45
Museum at Montevideo, 157
Mutton, despised, 156
N
National Assembly, confirms and then vetoes appointment
of Lavalleja, 111
Negroes, first introduced into Uruguay, 44, 243;
troops, 243;
treatment of, in slavery, 245
O
Oats, 285
Oribe, General, 108;
second President, 111;
deprives Rivera of command, 112;
resigns upon intervention of France, 113;
joins Rosas, 114, 120, 314
Ostentation, common South American failing, not found
in Uruguay, 133
Ostrich, the, 275-6
Otorgues, enters Montevideo, 71;
captured, 75
P
Palomas, seal islands, 295
Pan de Azucar, 201
Pando, agricultural centre, 197-8
Paraguay, 28;
appealed to during Revolution, 64;
the Paraguayan War, 122-3
Paysandú, centre of meat industry, 32, 58, 321-2
Paysandú, department, 268
Pelota, 223
Pereira, President, 120-1
Philip V. cedes Colonia to Portuguese, 44
Pines, 203
Piracy in eighteenth century, 45
Piria, Señor, 199-200, 202
Piriapolis, 197
Plata, La, River Plate, delineation of boundaries,
34, 45
Police, 136-7
Politics, 311-23;
conduct of revolutions, 316-17
Portuguese, rivalry of, with Spain, 38;
founders of Colonia, 42;
attempt to obtain Uruguay, 46;
invade Rio Grande, 49;
trouble with, 50-55;
invade Uruguay during Revolution, 61;
again invade Uruguay, 73.
_See Brazil_
Posts, Telegraphs, Telephones, 340-1
Prado, the, 162
Privateering, 45;
Uruguayan privateers in European waters, 75;
Garibaldi, 114
Progress, 36
R
Race-meetings, 131
Railways, 176-80, 206-7, 297-308;
companies and stock, 302, 308
Ramirez, deserts and defeats Artigas, 76
Ranchos, primitive, 177, 211
Rats, in Montevideo, 155
Real de San Carlo, 223
Refrigerating industry, 263, 280-2
Republican Constitution, the, 312
Revenue, tables of, 335-6
Revolutions: the War of Independence commences at
Paysandú, 58;
Portuguese intervention, 64;
independence proclaimed, 71;
independence recognised after expulsion of the
Brazilians, 103;
revolution of 1853, 119;
military revolution of 1875, 124;
lesser revolutions, 311-23
Rhodesia, 283
Rio Negro, department, 267
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