• KevonLooney
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    7 months ago

    The gauchos are the settlers you mentioned. The soldiers were mostly British mercenaries. Did you read the article?

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      A colony of 240 people are not a few people, and are not all comprised of just gauchos or British mercenaries, they were French there as well.

      I’m going to “bow out” of further replies. I’ve been at this for coming up on 24 hours now, and am tired of everyone wanting their “pound of flesh”, and have said pretty much everything I can say. No disrespect meant to you, just thing the conversation has reached a termination point. Take care.