Jose de San Martin: The Unknown Hero of Latin America Pt 1
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- Jose de San Martin, champion of the guerra de la independencia, was an Argentine General, provincial governor and innovative commander who played a key role in the liberation of the viceroyalties and colonies of Latin America from the Spanish Crown in their post-Napoleonic struggle for independence. His youth was spent training as a professional soldier and his early career saw him first fighting with Napoleon's French forces against the Portuguese; then against them, as Napoleon revoked his alliance with the Spanish King and invaded the Iberian peninsula and installed his brother Joseph Bonaparte on the throne in 1808. Years of bloodshed and horror during the Iberian campaign was the crucible in which he developed his social consciousness and military thinking, and as the war ground to a stalemate, the call to return to his native motherland in its struggle for self-determination became increasingly difficult to ignore. This led San Martin - the highest ranking criollo officer in the Iberian peninsula, to resign his commission and make his way back to Buenos Aires, where this quiet, reserved and politically moderate soldier was to embark on a military career that would see him become venerated as "el libertador" (the liberator).
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Erratum:
1. Yapeyu province in Northern Argentina was referred to as a jungle in the film, but the rainforest didn't extend as far south as San Martin's father's posting. The region was instead a wetland/swamp region.
2. I refer to Simon Bolivar as Columbian (due to his presidency of Gran Columbia), but he was a Venezuelan by birth
“The rich and the landlords refuse to fight, they don't want to send their sons to battle, they tell me they will send three servants for each son just so they don't have to pay the fines, they say they don't care to remain a colony... Their children remain fat and comfortable in their homes, one day it will be known that this Homeland was liberated by the Poor and the children of the poor, our Indians and Blacks who will no longer be anyone's slaves." General Jose De San Martin.
Nunca dijo ni escribió eso, esa frase se la atribuye a un historiador de la ideología socialista/marxista para hacer pasar a San Martín por partidario de esas ideas, lo cual se desmiente en las cartas que envió al brigadier Rosas y al presidente del Perú. , Ramón Castilla, manifestando su rechazo a las revoluciones socialistas que se estaban produciendo en Europa
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San Martin might not be well known to those who are not particularly interested in South American history, but that doesn't mean he is an unknown historical figure. In fact, theres quite a big statue of Jose de San Martin right in Central Park, New York, on the 5th Ave side, and it is a well known fact that Pres. Truman had a portrait of San Martin in the Oval Office.
Thanks for sharing that.
Thank you for the careful research. Your choice of San Martin is really remarkable since he's little known outside South America. The crossing of the Andes with and army is a feat more impressive than that of Hannibal considering the hight of the Andes. His renunciation to personal glory and the betrayal of his own government and the Peruvians elites is very telling.
"Elites", you mean freemasobry!!! As san martin was one of them, also!!
Really informative documentary, excellent video........I helped to install the Argentinian cellular phone network across the entire country in 1993 (GTE//Telesp/AT&T/Novatell RBS). It was such a beautiful country and a wonderful people! I did get to enter Bolivia for a short time............📣📱☎📞
It saddens me to know San Martín isn't recognized that much around the world. Such a pity, he was as important as Bolívar, O'Higgins, etc. He was a true patriot.
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Thank you very much for your effort.
You are welcome! I really admired his story.
Fascinating
I haven´t seen this documentary yet In fact this is the first time I see your channel because of the FitzRoy episode, which I really liked. I ll see this now, I hope is good as well. AS an Argentine and having in a very high regard San Martin, I do hope it
Where San Martin was born there are and there were no jungles,
the "jungles" in the territory of the former Argentina were very north, close to Brazil border. Long away from Yapeyu, Corrientes were San Martin was born
It's a very good summary of the main events leading to 1810, offering a summary of the peninsular wars and the geopolitical background in Europe and North America along the way.
In my view, the narration of the events leading up to the wars of independence - or the above mentioned historical background information - could have been provided while firmly establishing the story in South America, and then referring to events in Europe (and a lesser extent in North America) when and as developments became known and relevant to the colonies. Telling it through the eyes of the criollos as it were.
This might have provided you with a more compact, well defined story arc. But this is in no way supposed to diminish your excellent work which I much appreciate, thank you.
My word this channel is amazing! Your content completes me....uh maybe, sometimes, you know.
Thank you
The Neapolanic Code of Justice continues to keep our society civil and equal in many places. He was the antithesis of the power elite Nobles.
Hahahahahaha BS
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He was an Argentine general? This is the first mistake as all the history of Hispanoamérica. He was Spanish or criollo if you prefer. His parents were Spanish. He was born en el virreinato de la plata, Argentina did not exist yet.
Has he any photographs?
I like ones with music in the background way better
San Martin no era mason (eso es un mito inventado por ellos) la logia lautaro era una logia secreta de caracter politico que buscaba la independencia de España. Recomiendo los libros: Don Jose y los chatarreros, San Martin cuestiones disputadas, San Martin: mason,catolico o deista. Recomiendo tambien, San Martin y el Peru y los enemigos de San Martin (if you speak english just traduce it).
Correct. it's a myth repeated and repeated without reliable sources.
San martin was a freemasonry, f•ool
Vos entendés que tmb se pueden citar varios libros que dicen que sí era masón? Que sentido tiene enumerar libros? En mi opinión era claramente masón, y creo que no tiene gran relevancia, solo ofende a los que creen que esto va en contra del catolicismo...patrañas...
@@YOSOYLADISCO no pudo haber sido mason porque no seguia el pensamiemto masonico, el era catolico, monarquista y antiliberal. Las ideas masonicas estan en contra del catolicismo, prefiriendo tener un estado laico, ademas de promover el liberalismo y el iluminismo frances. Ademas de que muchos de sus rivales fueron masones y no tiene sentido de que masones peleen emtre si ya que son hermanos. Que tu opinion sea de que San Martin haya sido mason, no lo hace verdad
@@lautarofarias1364 es decir que los masones son liberales y a la vez no pueden estar en desacuerdo? Eso es un contrasentido. También negás que participó en varias logias como La gran reunión americana, la Sociedad de los Caballeros Racionales y la Logia Lautaro, todas de carácter masónico? San Martín perseguía objetivos políticos antes que nada, después puede ser que haya sido un católico en mayor o menor medida, tampoco hay gran certeza al respecto. Los que abogan por un San Martín sumamente devoto parecen obviar que era ante todo un soldado que mataba soldados, lo que no sería muy católico en todo caso tampoco.
Ic would love to hear a history of Garibaldi! You would be the ideal story teller for his unique talent at putting the privileged into x their place. My ancestor was one the 100 that invaded the papal sanctuary. Did you know Lincoln tried to hire him to lead the North in the Civil War? Teddy Roosevelt was another super achiever that elevated humanity.
In the pipeline- stay tuned!
I love the papal sentence 🤠cuz I hate that demonic parasite like cancer 👍🤗
can you do a video on sir thomas cochrane?
See part 2, where I include him in the Lima campaign. As the video shows, I have mixed feeling about Cochrane. There is no doubt he was a brilliant commander though.
Cochrane was a mercenary sent by england to supervise San martin, bolivar & CO implementing the Matlin plan!!!
@heroesandlegends British mercenary to supervise San martin & CO
Good video but the intro is too long, the battle of Trafalgar is mentioned twice, the complex intrigues of Spain’s war against Portugal and Britain can be trimmed down, I apréciate the detail but there isn’t a clear emphasis on San Martin in the first half of this video and so many things are happening for all this context that the narrative is hard to follow
Learning as i go. Thanks for your feedback. Hopefully the content improves with time and experience
Really well done
0:38 JUNGLES of Argentina ????.. pray tell where these are ??
Alan why not stick with BALKAN history ??
Have you ever been to the territories around Iguassu Falls? I have. The Northern border regions where San Martin was born are indeed jungle. Unless my eyes deceived me. But I don't think so.
@@heroesandlegends No I would NOT consider Yapeyu as JUNGLE !! I too have been in that area !!
@@heroesandlegends Iguazu is definetly a jungle, but Yapeyú is far way too south for that, the whole of Corrientes is closer to a wetland than a Jungle, plain terrain, swamps. A bit further north yeah, then it turns to jungle
Misiones province, for one.
This takes no account of the extensive defence system built up by the Spanish in the Americas since 1762 against the British. The mainstay were the first American-raised regular units (fijos). These increasingly outnumbered the Spanish regular troops rotated through the Americas (rotatorios), who suffered very high attrition rates to disease to the point that, after a few years, they were often effectively annihilated. Even more numerous were the largely criollo-officered "disciplined militias", which gave criollos their first formal military opportunities. Beyond them there other far more numerous but less organized militias. The Milicias Disciplinadas formed after 1762 are key to the evolution of Criollo military culture.
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Mmmmm!!!! There’s so many things don’t make sense!!!!! But it’s just a young guy narrator trying to tell the story of Bolivar and San Martin.
Not so young anymore unfortunately
San Martin was "native", maybe. Indigenous, definitely not. I have no doubt the indigenous people of South America do not feel liberated to this day, nor the campesinos and other lower classes. Like every story of "liberation" and "revolution", there was no improvement to the relative status of the poor and exploited - again, to this day. Only the elites were affected, and then only by stopping the flow of wealth to Iberia. The same "native" European elite remained in power, with a few individuals changing status, while the lower classes were induced to slaughter each other to achieve this dubious aim.
The saddest thing is that many citizens still seem to be duped by the romantic story of liberation. I am no Marxist, mainly because those who have formed governments under this banner are just as exploitative and murderous as those who claim to be the opposite. The reality is, feudalism remains over the majority of the globe, significantly so in the USA. Only small pockets of something approaching democracy are scattered across the globe. They are holding out against the gloom of oligarchal kleptocracy that still surges in our most powerful nations.
BRITISH FREEMASONRY WAS HIS LORD!!!
He colubd
San Martin no era mason
San Martin was a liberator in his own right but we all know who the real and true el libertador is.
Even he himself knew who the true "liberator" was, which is why he made it mandatory for his army to be the most Catholic force in the hemisphere. He always knew that our Lord in heaven receives all the glory. It doesn't matter what all the millions of Venezuelans or Colombians want to argue against San Martín. There's never a single chance in all history for a loser of almost all battles to be better than a VICTORIOUS SEASONED PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER and STRATEGIST like San Martin was.
Just what did he liberate them from ?? I say he DOOMED them !!
thanks to san martin the south cone stopped being spain's condom
BOLIVAR WAS NOT COLOMBIAN. HE WAS BORN IN CARACAS, VENEZUELA. WHEN I HEARD THIS I STOPPED WATCHING. DID YOU EVEN DO A RESEARCH??
Good point - as president of Gran Columbia I titled him as such, but on reflection, I should have used his birth nationality. Thanks, I will note it in the Errata section