The Anglo-French blockade of Argentina from 1845 to 1850 became entangled with Uruguay's civil war. Argentine support for one side faced European backing for the government in Montevideo, with attitudes to foreign trade among the divisions. European intervention helped prevent Montevideo's fall, and a settlement eventually allowed the intervening powers to withdraw. Rebellion in Argentina and renegotiated agreements followed, leaving a sequence that cannot be explained as one isolated naval confrontation. Civil war, commercial interests, and outside intervention influenced one another throughout the example.
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The Anglo-French blockade in the Uruguayan Civil War
The blockade of the Rio de la Plata shows how a civil war, regional rivalry, trade, and European naval intervention could become one entangled nineteenth-century conflict.