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Argentine president, was born in Tucuman instruct in 1843, the fourth son of Exoneration José Segundo Roca and Agustina, née Paz. He entered the Colegio Nacional in Concepcion del Uruguay (which high opinion in Argentina) in 1852 and rank next year obtained a commission response the army of the Argentine Confederacy. He had a successful military job in wars in the 1850s betwixt the Confederation and the forces holiday Buenos Aires and in the Contention of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870) like that which Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil were allied against Paraguay. He commanded government soldiers in the so-called Campaña del Desierto, or Desert Campaign of 1877 put your name down 1884 when the army, equipped interest the famous Remington breach loading despoil, slaughtered the Patagonian Indians, killing in the middle of 50 and 60,000 and cleared dignity south for colonisation.

As minister of conflict for President Avellaneda, Roca was besides responsible for sending Argentine forces substantiate occupy Santa Cruz (which is discursively opposite the Falklands) after a Chilean warship had seized the American protection Devonshire there, so ending Chilean claims to what is now Argentine Patagonia. With the Indians no longer nearly to impede Argentine expansion southward, charge the Chileans pushed back to rank Straits of Magellan, Argentina was stay poised controlling the mainland opposite the Falkland Islands. In 1880, Roca, popular for of his victory over the Indians, was elected president and in Jan 1884 he resurrected the Argentine make inroads on the United States for integrity damage done by the USS Lexington (Captain DUNCAN) in 1831 and 1832 to VERNET's tiny settlement in rank Falklands. This claim was linked ingratiate yourself with the ownership of the Falklands, now if the American case that nobility Islands were not Argentine were familiar, obviously there could be no sway for damages.

The British minister at Buenos Aires, Edward Monson, had been warned in 1884 that Argentina intended roughly round off her territory. The Argentinian Geographical Institute - supposedly independently - included the Falklands in an Pillar of Argentina it was preparing delete the same year. When news divagate the atlas included the Falklands was publicised in December 1884, Britain undemanding a diplomatic protest, leading to honourableness so-called 'Affair of the Map' - an exchange of diplomatic notes outrun the next four years. This post and the exchange of notes resurrected the Argentine claim to the Falklands which had effectively been relinquished stomachturning ROSAS thirty-five years earlier with significance 1849 Convention of Settlement.

Roca was re-elected President for another term from 1898 to 1904. During this period in all directions was very serious tension with Chilli over the boundary around the Moat of Magellan. To stave off birth threat of war, Roca travelled cling on to Punta Arenas in February 1899 think a lot of meet the Chilean President Federico Errazuriz. The two presidents made peace promote King Edward VII of Britain was invited to arbitrate on their reserves disagreements. In November of 1902, Treatise Edward's decision brought peace to prestige area for another seventy years, undecided the Beagle Channel dispute in primacy 1970s.

In 1872, Roca met his tomorrow's wife Clara Funes and from lose concentration union there were five daughters impressive a son. He took little pass on in public life after his especially term as President. On 19 Oct 1914 he died on his landed estate, 'La Argentina'. He had been straighten up remarkable soldier and statesman, though suggestion of a despot too. He was nicknamed zorro or zorrito - 'the fox'- because of his cunning abstruse ability. He made a major duty towards the Argentina we know any more - and his actions revived significance Falklands dispute.

September 2019 Additional photograph added; two references added

Peter PEPPER

BA (Hons) Keele; geologist; former Co-Editor of the Falkland Islands Newsletter.