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April 19 is the anniversary of the Landing of the 33 Patriots in Uruguay also known as the Treinta y Tres Orientales called ‘Orientales‘ because Uruguay was known as the Banda Oriental or the “Eastern Bank” of the Rio de la Plata the western shore being Argentina.In a span of less than ten years—1807 to 1816—the Banda Oriental and its capital city of Montevideo were occupied by the English retaken by the Spanish and invaded by the Portuguese.In 1816 Portuguese Brazil took Banda Oriental from the north ousting the province’s hero Jose Gervasio Artigas in 1820 and forcing him into exile in Paraguay.