Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . s, 25 May,1810, arrived, fol-lowed in June bythat of the de-posal of the Span-ish governor ofChili, Carrasco,and the forma-tion of a revo-lutionary junta,18 Sept. Dorregojoined in the rev-olutionary move-ment, and theChilian govern-ment, after its in-ndence was recognized, struck a medal in hishonor, with the inscription, Chili to its firstdefender. In lsll Dorrego returned to his nativecity, was appointed commander of a regiment of. .oid distinguished himself in the battleunder Gen, Saavedra. In 1812, com-manding a brigade in the army of Gen. Puey
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . s, 25 May,1810, arrived, fol-lowed in June bythat of the de-posal of the Span-ish governor ofChili, Carrasco,and the forma-tion of a revo-lutionary junta,18 Sept. Dorregojoined in the rev-olutionary move-ment, and theChilian govern-ment, after its in-ndence was recognized, struck a medal in hishonor, with the inscription, Chili to its firstdefender. In lsll Dorrego returned to his nativecity, was appointed commander of a regiment of. .oid distinguished himself in the battleunder Gen, Saavedra. In 1812, com-manding a brigade in the army of Gen. Pueyrredon,:id to Upper Peru, and defeated theish forces in Nazareno and Suipacha, beingrely wounded in the latter battle. In Sep-tember of the same year he took a distinguished;n the battle of Tucuman, and in February,1813, in thai of Salta, and when Artigas tookpossession oi Oruguay in 1814, Dorrego defeatedhirn in the bloody battle of Gnayabo, and in thefollowing vear participated inthe battles offarrios and Sourena, in which he captured many. prisoners, and those of Pozo Verde and Llatarte,saving those towns from conflagration and Pueyrredon, 20 March, 181(3, declared him-self dictator, Dorrego energetically opposed himin the press, and, on a charge of military insub-ordination and arrogance, was banished. He wentto the United States, resided there nearly fouryears, and published Cartas apolojeticas encontestacion al auto de expatriacion (Baltimore,1817). On the downfall of the dictator in 1820,Dorrego went home, was elected governor ofBuenos Ayres, and organized troops to subdue thelawdess bands that opposed the authorities in theinterior under the name of montoneros, whomhe defeated, 2 Aug., at San Nicolas de losArroyos. In 1823 he was elected, by a popularvote, a member of the Junta de Representantes,and in 1826 of the constituent congress, wherehe distinguished himself by his eloquence, defend-ing federal principles against the central party or Unitarios. In J
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