{"id":122,"date":"2008-02-03T13:16:59","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T15:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2008-02-03T13:16:59","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T15:16:59","slug":"comodoro-luis-py","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"112. comodoro luis py"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Comodoro Luis Py, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200801G24.jpg\" alt=\"Comodoro Luis Py, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An important naval officer during the formative years of Argentine history, Luis Py was born in Barcelona in 1819. He joined the Argentine Navy at the age of 24 &amp; served under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=239\">Admiral Guillermo Brown<\/a> while defending Montevideo from the British-French blockade. During the difficult times of the <em>Confederaci\u00f3n Argentina<\/em> (basically BsAs <em>vs.<\/em> the rest of the nation in the 1850s), Py earned the rank of Captain for his defense of Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The most difficult moment for Py was during the 1860s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=258\">war with Paraguay<\/a> when the vessel he commanded was heavily damaged &amp; his son&#8212;also enlisted in the Navy &amp; on board&#8212;was killed. Py continued to rise in the ranks &amp; was sent by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=1104\">President Sarmiento<\/a> to defend Argentina&#8217;s claim to Patagonia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the same time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=3053\">Roca<\/a> began the Desert Conquest campaign, Py took a small fleet to Santa Cruz discovering an easily overtaken Chilean outpost. Remaining there for several months, Py&#8217;s presence effectively warned Chile to stay away. Returning to Buenos Aires, he was promoted to Commodore at the age of 60 &amp; passed away 5 years later in 1884. Py should have received a special mention for his handlebar moustache:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Comodoro Luis Py, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200803I25.jpg\" alt=\"Comodoro Luis Py, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The large number of naval symbols leaves no doubt as to his calling in life:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Comodoro Luis Py, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200803I24.jpg\" alt=\"Comodoro Luis Py, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And an eye-level plaque reminds us that this vault was sponsored by friends &amp; fellow naval personnel:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Comodoro Luis Py, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200801G26.jpg\" alt=\"Comodoro Luis Py, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important naval officer during the formative years of Argentine history, Luis Py was born in Barcelona in 1819. He joined the Argentine Navy at&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=122\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">112. comodoro luis py<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}