Battle of Cabo Santa María īustamante's flotilla being intercepted by four British frigates commanded by Moore Amphion reaches the Mercedes (by Francis Sartorius) Here he spent 18 years (1782–1800) doing Topography work, botanic studies and preparing reports on the Tupi and Guarani peoples. Diego de Alvear received command of the task for one of these sections to be studied, which encompassed the areas around the Paraná and Paraguay rivers. Charles III ordered that to accomplish this task, they had to divide the border in five sections to be studied separately. After the aforementioned colonial conflict, both kingdoms decided to clearly mark the borders of their colonial possessions. It was an endeavor started by king Charles III, where political objectives and military ideals where mixed. Īmong the works during this stage in his life, he worked on the delineation of the border between Spanish and Portuguese territories. He continued his ascending military career reaching the rank of general and in 1781 wed María Balbastro, with whom he had nine children. It was on this new viceroyalty where Diego de Alvear y Ponce de León lived for almost thirty years. After a favorable resolution to Spanish interests, Charles III created the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata and named general Pedro de Cevallos as viceroy. Its name derives from a colonial conflict between Spain and Portugal for control of Colonia del Sacramento in what today is Uruguay, where the Spanish forces were commanded by Pedro de Cevallos. After entering the Spanish navy as midshipman (1770), he arrived at the Rio de la Plata in 1774 and fought in the "Sacramento War" (also known as "Ceballos Expedition" 1776-1777). He studied in Jesuit schools, first in Montilla and later at Granada, until the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767. Jurisdiction over western Patagonia to the Magellan strait and the coast of Atacama in the Pacific, considered by the Chilean historians as belonging to the Capitanía General de Chile Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata in 1783.
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