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.