Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Monte Caseros (Urquiza's Rising).

Fought February 3, 1852, between the Argentine Government troops, under President Rosas, the leader of the Gaucho party, 25,000 strong, and 20,000 insurgents, under Urquiza. Rosas was totally defeated, and compelled to fly to England, thus ending the long domination of the Gauchos in the Argentine Republic.