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Luso-Brazilian invasion of Uruguay
Date 1816 Location Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina Result United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves victory Anexation of the Banda Oriental to the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves.
Belligerents
United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves	Banda Oriental Entre Ríos Province Misiones Province
Commanders and leaders
John VI of Portugal Carlos Federico Lecor Joaquim Xavier Curado José de Abreu Mena Barreto Jacinto Roque de Sena Pereira Alejandro Queiró	José Artigas Andrés Guazurary Fructuoso Rivera Fernando Otorgués Pedro Campbell

The Luso-Brazilian invasion of the Banda Oriental, also known as the Portuguese Invasion of 1816 and the War against Artigas (in Brazil), was an armed conflict between the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves and the people of the Banda Oriental and the Misiones Province. The conflict took place in its entirety in the present-day territories of Uruguay, the Argentinian Mesopotamia, and southern Brazil.

Portugal had a long history of conflict with Spain over the southern borders of their South-American Empires. For instance, the city of Colonia del Sacramento had switched 7 times between Portuguese and Spanish rule between 1680 and 1777.
After losing Argentina in the May Revolution of 1810, Spain was finally chased out of Southern-South America when its last stronghold Montevideo was conquered in June 1814.
When the Independence of Argentina was declared, some former Spanish provinces didn't join, but instead formed the Federal League under José Gervasio Artigas. This reflected the competition between the Unitarians, who wanted a strong central government in Buenos Aires and the Federalists who wanted considerable autonomy of the provincial governments.
In Brasil, there had been no revolt against Portugal. In 1815, King John VI of Portugal even decided to stay in Brazil and create the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves with as capital Rio de Janeiro.
John, in a strong and stable Brazil, now saw the chance to reconquer the Banda Oriental from a poorly organized new revolutionary state, thus eliminating a potentially dangerous experiment at his doorstep. In his plans, he was supported by Spanish Royalists refugees like Gaspar de Vigodet, the Reactionary mood in Europe after the defeat of Napoleon, and even tacitly by the Unitarians in Buenos Aires.

• Battle of River Ibicuí (1817)
• Battle of Carumbé

At the end of the Portuguese invasion, over 4000 Uruguayans, or 6% of the entire population of the Banda Oriental, had been killed by the invaders in three and a half years of bloody war.

The Banda Oriental, now called the Cisplatina Province, became first part of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves and in 1822 of the Empire of Brazil after its independence from Portugal.
In 1828, after the Argentina-Brazil War, Uruguay became an independent state.

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