Abstract

FRADKIN, RAÚL O. The military cavalry of Buenos Aires, 1752-1805. Front. hist. [online]. 2014, vol.19, n.1, pp.124-150. ISSN 2027-4688.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the methods of the colonial militias system by analyzing the experience of the city of Buenos Aires and its campaign. This will be achieved through the consideration of the militias system's trajectory between 1752, when it began to stabilize, and 1805, when the colonial order and the militia regime that had been organized collapsed. My objective is to reconstruct this experience by attempting to specify its range and the nature and characteristics of the militia formations, focusing on the cavalry ones. A dispersed and heterogeneous corpus, kept in various archives, is used, with the intention to systematize and weigh the available information.

Keywords : Buenos Aires; cavalry; colony; militia.

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