David Jewett1820
Colonel David Jewett, an American sailor at the service of Buenos Aires and captain of the frigate Heroina, raises the flag of the United Provinces of the River Plate (which later became Argentina) at Port Louis.
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Colonel David Jewett, an American sailor at the service of Buenos Aires and captain of the frigate Heroina, raises the flag of the United Provinces of the River Plate (which later became Argentina) at Port Louis.
When Argentina declares its independence from Spain in 1816, it laid claim to the islands according to the uti possidetis juris principle, since they had been under the administrative jurisdiction of the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata.
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