The Pueyrredon house in San Isidro (Pcia de Bs As)

1806: Benefitting from the deliquescence of the Spanish Crown (see article on the Argentina national Day), Englishes, who on several occasions expressed their interest for this colony, unload on banks of Rio of Plata.
An army of 5000 men placed under the command of the General Beresford , takes possession of the town of Buenos Aires, deserted by the representative of King of Spain, the viceroy Sobremonte, who fled towards Cordoba with the royal treasure.

Although badly organized, English expedition settles in the city without meeting great resistances. Assured of its forces, it does not suspect that a threat is profiled on the other side of Rio.
Indeed, a French adventurer named Santiago de liniers raises a small army to Montevideo. He crosses the river Uruguay in Colonia and head for Buenos Aires while skirting it.
formed on a 29 year old Creole initiative, inhabitant of the Acassuso district of San Isidro (in the North-West of Buenos Aires). This young man who will play an important part thereafter at the time of the declaration of Independence of Argentina (1815), is named Juan Martin Pueyrredon.
The junction made with the troops of Linen near San Isidro, Pueyrredon, to whom the French has just given the title of “Commandante General de los Voluntarios de Caballeria Ligera ", enters with him in Buenos Aires. Profiting from the population support, they will retake, district by district, house by house, the city until the surrender of Englishes.
In the garden of the Pueyrredon house, stand a tree where few years later, Pueyrredon and San Martin will have a crucial talk for the creation of the Argentinian nation.