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Antonio Luis Beruti (
1772 -
September 24,
1841) was an
Argentine revolutionary who participated in the
May Revolution that started the
Argentine War of Independence, and later fought in the Argentine civil wars.
Born in
Buenos Aires, Beruti was educated in
Spain. After concluding his studies, he returned to Argentina and joined the nascent independence movement, which he helped to organize. Along with
Domingo French, he led a group of revolutionaries known as
the Chisperos, who played a pivotal role in the
Semana de Mayo, the week beginning on
May 18,
1810, which culminated in the May Revolution. Along with French, he distributed white and blue ribbons to the populace, so that patriots could distinguish themselves from royalists.
In the
Cabildo Abierto of
May 22, he voted for the deposition of the viceroy
Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros and was the most fervent opposer to a
Junta presided over by him. He was quoted as saying: "A Junta presided over by Cisneros is the same as Cisneros' viceroyalty". On
May 25, he confronted the members of the Cabildo to demand the abolition of the
Viceroyalty and the election of a new junta. His demands were met, and that day the Cabildo elected Argentina's first independent executive, the
Primera Junta, which was presided over by
Cornelio Saavedra.
A month later Beruti was named lieutenant colonel of the America Regiment, created by the Junta, and organized by himself and Domingo French. A supporter of
Mariano Moreno, Beruti remained faithful to his ideals even after Moreno's death. For this reason, he began attending meetings at the Café de Marcos, a center of opposition to the Saavedrist faction. On the fifth and sixth of April,
1811, the Saavedrists organized a coup against their opponents in the government.
Miguel de Azcuénaga,
Hipólito Vieytes, and
Nicolás Rodriguez Peña were forced to resign and subsequently exiled from Buenos Aires. Beruti, along with French, Donado, Posadas, and most other active members of the
Patriotic Society, was exiled to – among other places –
Chile.
Beruti then participated in the Chile campaign alongside General
José de San Martín in early
1817, and fought in the
Battle of Chacabuco. His wife, Doña Mercedes Ortíz, was one of the ladies who, the previous year, along with Doña Remedios de Escalada de San Martín, had donated their jewels for the liberation campaign. On
March 13, 1817,
Bernardo O'Higgins, at the request of San Martín, asked Beruti to return to the city of
Mendoza and arranged his passport with governor Luzuriaga. He was able to return to Buenos Aires on
November 17. He later became a member of the
Unitarian Party and participated in the
civil war against the
Federalists.
Beruti died on
September 24,
1841 in the
Battle of Rodeo del Medio, where he'd fought under the command of
Gregorio Aráoz de Lamadrid. He was buried in an unmarked grave and his remains have never been identified.
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