The Revolution of May of 1810 in the Uruguayan historiography of nationalist orientation

Abstract

The Uruguayan official historiography, articulated by the traditional school of nationalist orientation, attributed a subsidiary magnitude to the Revolution of May of 1810. Its chronicle is generally brief, and in a context based on stories geographically restricted to the Banda Oriental. This article leads to analyze the interpretation of the events of May of 1810 carried out by the main promoters of the classic pro-independence thesis - Francisco Bauzá, Pablo Blanco Acevedo and Juan Pivel Devoto -and, to identify the attributed role within the general framework of the nationalist discourse.