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Army of Argentina

Argentine Army
Ejército Argentino
Seal of the Argentine Army.svg
Seal of the EA.
Active May 29, 1810; 206 years ago (1810-05-29)
Country  Argentine Republic
Branch Army
Size 46.275
Part of Ministry of Defense
Motto(s) Born with the Fatherland in May 1810
March Argentine Army Song
Anniversaries Army Day (29 May)
Equipment Equipment of the Argentine Army
Engagements
Argentine War of Independence
Spanish American wars of independence
Argentine Civil Wars
Portuguese conquest of the Banda Oriental
Cisplatine War
War of the Confederation
Platen War
Uruguayan Civil War
Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata
Paraguayan War
Conquest of the Desert
Operativo Independencia
Falklands War
1989 attack on La Tablada barracks
Website http://www.ejercito.mil.ar/
Commanders
Commander-in-chief President Mauricio Macri
Chief of General Staff Lieutenant general Diego Luis Suñer
Deputy Chief of General Staff Brigadier-General Santiago Julio Ferreyra
Insignia
Identification
symbol
Flag of Argentina (2-3).png

The Argentine Army (Ejército Argentino, EA) is the land armed force branch of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic and the senior military service of the country. Under the Argentine Constitution, the President of Argentina is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, exercising his or her command authority through the Minister of Defense.

The Army's official foundation date is May 29, 1810 (celebrated in Argentina as the Army Day), four days after the Spanish colonial administration in Buenos Aires was overthrown. The new national army was formed out of several pre-existent colonial militia units and locally manned regiments; most notably the Infantry Regiment "Patricios", which to this date is still an active unit.

Several armed expeditions were sent to the Upper Peru (now Bolivia), Paraguay, Uruguay and Chile to fight Spanish forces and secure Argentina's newly gained independence. The most famous of these expeditions was the one led by General José de San Martín, who led a 5000-man army across the Andes Mountains to expel the Spaniards from Chile and later from Perú. While the other expeditions failed in their goal of bringing all the dependencies of the former Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata under the new government in Buenos Aires, they prevented the Spaniards from crushing the rebellion.

During the civil wars of the first half of the 19th century, the Argentine Army became fractionalized under the leadership of the so-called caudillos ("leaders" or "warlords"), provincial leaders who waged a war against the centralist Buenos Aires administration. However, the Army was briefly re-unified during the war with the Brazilian Empire. (1824–1827).


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