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Article: An Australian perspective on the English invasions of the Rio de la Plata in 1806 and 1807 (1).
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- June 1, 2003
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On 13 September 1806 Prime Minister William Grenville and his ministers in London received a despatch from Brigadier-General William Carr Beresford in Buenos Aires informing them of the capture of that city on the preceding 27 June by the small detachment of 1,635 troops under his command, which had been transported to the Rio de la Plata from Cape Town by a squadron of six warships and five transports commanded by Commodore Sir Home Popham. (2) The expedition had been carried out entirely on the initiative of Popham He had commanded the fleet which had transported the forces under General David Baird that had captured Cape Town from the Dutch some months before, and he ...
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