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Mesa, Manuel

Index: Biografía de Tadeo Isidoro Cruz, El Aleph, OC,Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 562. Jorge Luis Borges: La nueva literatura argentina: Vlady Kociancich, CS,El círculo secreto. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 2003. 97.
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Argentine gaucho soldier

Fishburn and Hughes: "A military leader who fought in the Wars of Independence and later in the frontier wars against the Indians. In 1829, in Laguna Colorada, Mesa was successful in recruiting a small contingent to fight on the side of Rosas. It was so popular that their numbers grew daily, joined by local montoneros and friendly Indians. On 29 January they were surprised by a force under Lavalle and suffered heavy casualties. Mesa escaped with some of his men to join Rosas, but he was attacked on the way, near Pergamino, by Isidoro Suárez, who sent him to Buenos Aires where he was condemned to death and executed on 16 February 1829." (129)