Rosas

[ Spanish roh-sahs ]

noun

1. Juan Manuel de [hwahn, mahn-, wel, , th, e], 1793–1877, Argentine military and political leader: governor of Buenos Aires and dictator 1835–52.

Example Sentences

Julio Cesar Rosas (a pseudonym) owns a medium-sized business in Los Cortijos, a district in east-central Caracas.

From The Daily Beast

Venezuelan media identified the injured Americans as Roberto Ezequiel Rosas and Paul Marwin.

From The Daily Beast

Quiroga had seen the elevation of Rosas with ill-concealed disgust, and the new Dictator resolved to make away with him.

From Project Gutenberg

The coast-line is not deeply indented, but includes one large bay, the Gulf of Rosas.

From Project Gutenberg

Of all the men who fought on either side, the greatest leader was, of course, Juan Manuel Rosas.

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The relations of Rosas with the foreign Powers soon grew strained.

From Project Gutenberg

This, however, is to anticipate somewhat, since it was as early as 1829 that Rosas first took charge of the Argentine Government.

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