The British Invasion of the River Plate 1806-1807: How the Redcoats Were Humbled and a Nation Was Born

In 1806 a British expeditionary force captured Buenos Aires. Over the next eighteen months, Britain was sucked into a costly campaign on the far side of the world. The Spaniards were humbled on the battlefield and Montevideo was taken by storm, but the campaign ended in disaster when 6000 redcoats and riflemen surrendered following a bloody battle in the streets of the Argentine capital. so ended one of the most humiliating - and neglected - episodes of the entire Napoleonic Wars.