Sentences with 'peninsular'
Example sentences and phrases with the word peninsular and other words derived from it.
• « On 24 May 1810, the Cabildo in Buenos Aires appointed a government junta presided over by Viceroy Cisneros and composed of the peninsular José Santos Incháurregui and the Creoles Cornelio Saavedra, Juan José Castelli and Juan Nepomuceno Solá. All of them had voted in the Cabildo Abierto to dismiss the viceroy. »
• « To achieve the subordination of Paraguay, where the peninsular governor Bernardo de Velazco was governor intendant, a military expedition under the command of Manuel Belgrano was sent from Buenos Aires. »
• « The Álzaga conspiracy: in July 1812, the town was informed of the discovery of a conspiracy led by Don Martín de Álzaga, who was arrested and tried along with other neighbours of peninsular origin. The former warden of Buenos Aires and more than thirty accomplices were condemned to death. »