Chapter III: HISTORY (continued) 48

Founding of the city of Montevideo--Its first
inhabitants--Inducement offered to colonists--The early
days of the town--Successful rising of the Indians in
the neighbourhood--Victory of the natives--Montevideo
saved by Jesuit intervention--The Portuguese invade the
northern provinces--The first Governor of Montevideo--
Treaties and territorial cessions--Dissatisfaction of
Jesuit Indians--Their defeat by combined Spanish and
Portuguese forces--Vicissitudes of Colonia--The danger of
hostile residents--A concentration camp of the old
days--Expulsion of the Jesuits--Some incidents of the
wars with the Portuguese--The foundation of urban
centres--The English occupy themselves with the whaling
industry on the coast--Discouragement of the enterprise
by the King of Spain--A corps of "Blandengues" is
created--The British invasion--Political effects of
the occupation--The War of Independence--Montevideo
as the seat of the Spanish viceroyalty--Commencement
of the agitation for freedom in Uruguay.