Considering Vought longest piece of propaganda was that Supes were made by god one could assume that for some ppl Soldier Boy was the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ as he was the 1st public supe, so in a way Homelander could delude himself into thinking he is God's actual grandbaby.
What's specifically interesting about the Argentinian Independence?
TW: major yap (I am deeply sorry)
...Well...
You see, I'm a history nerd. I can't recite you all of history but I can deepen on some bits. What's fun (for me at least) it's how necessary it was for the revolutionaries to happen *now* (or at least in 1816), and the context behind it, but seriously deepened. Just because I like to see how everything unfolds in difficult contexts.
The short version is that Fernando VII returned to the throne after the fall of Napoleon, and wanted his colonies back. That was a hunch, because "we" had been trying to gain our independence for 6 years before that, and so, between a lot of wars everywhere, the most conservative independence parties agreed to sign it in a congress outside of the capitol, and on a congress on Tucumán, or the province that was also in the middle of conflict. What, for me, is the more interesting here is that even with wars all around (the territory looked like this*), it's that they were poor, hungry and tired, and they firmed in a hurry, mostly to then fight against Chile and Peru again, but as a free country.
I'd like to deepen context a lot more though, so the proper infodump is below (and infodump in the biggest case of the word— it's long, I got carried away, I am so very sorry).
I must warn, some translations are VERY rough and literal, so please excuse my ignorance. Also "we" or "VPR" is how I will refer to the Viceroyalty of the Plata River, because it's easier than to write the whole sentence. And it's HELLA long, so I'm sorry :'[
*(this isn't all that accurate though: Uruguay [or Oriental Province/ Banda Oriental] was spanish and doesn't foreshow the different territories there were inside the VPR)
A little context: The spanish king Carlos III abdicated the crown to his son Fernando VII because he, speaking casually, didn't want to deal with Napoleon and because the nobility rioted against him for allowing the french emperor cross his territory to get to Portugal. He imprisoned them both in 1808, and gave the power to his brother. Without any kings, the colonies were told by the Central Board of Sevilla to pledge alliance to Fernando as a sign of loyalty and protest. Still, The Viceroyalty of the Plata River, who was known to suck at following orders (before the Borbonic Reforms the Spanish held little power and piracy and contraband were very common), stated that, if there was no king, the viceroyal held no actual power. This thought was funded around the french Illustration ideas, and so society was divided among the royalists and the independence party.
Ever since the Revolution of May of 1810, The Viceroyalty of the Plata River (or El Virreinato del Río de la Plata) lead by Cornelio Saavedra and the creation of the First Board— of which he was president—, the viceroyalty had been trying to hold itself together. The enlighted divided themseves in two groups: Morenists, lead by Mariano Moreno, who thought that, without the spanish king, the spanish elites were all equal to the other 'lesser' groups (mulatos, mestizos, zambos, poc, and indians); and the Saavedrists, lead by Cornelio Saavedra, who thought that the order should remain relatively the same, but the power being held by american elites (people born in the continent, not the residents of the USA), which already many people were against even if that was already an issue before the borbonic reform. Both groups were bickering about who should rule, but when different representatives of the provinces who supported the revolution (some pressured, like Cordoba, some not so much, i.e. Entre Ríos) arrived Buenos Aires to form the Big Board, Moreno quit his position on the board and was sent on a diplomatic quest to london, on which he didn't get to because he died on the way. Ever since, there have been MULTIPLE projects of goverments (I'll try to be swift):
First Board (May to December 1810) lead by Cornelio Saavedra, terminated because of the creation of the
Big Board (December 1810 - September 1811), still lead by him. Terminated because he left to lead the North Armies, and without him, the Morenists took power.
First Triumvirate (Sep 1811 - Oct 1812), lead by Feliciani Chiclana, Manuel de Sarratea and Juan José Paso. Terminated because members of the Lautaro Lodge (formed by Morenists and european illustrationists, with San Martín) opposed to them and executed a coup, because they were persecuting the opposition. The members of the Lodge created the
Second Triumvirate (Oct 1812 - Jan 1814), lead by Nicolás Rodríguez Peña, Álavres Jonte and Juan José Paso (I'm noticing a pattern here ,':|). Even though they implementes de freedom of wombs (children born from slaves were free from slavery), the abolition of indigenous tax and servitude, the abolition of torture tools, and abandoning "Fernando's mask" (a tool implemented by Saavedra, to which they "pledged" loyalty to Fernando), the popular groups didn't like the power concentrated in hands of people born in Buenos Aires alone. As to why, I'll explain it when I get to the economical context.
Directory (Jan 1814). The power would be concentrated in one person only, firstly designated to Gervacio Posadas. No one liked him, so he was replaced by who designated him, Carlos María de Alvear.
Now starts my favorite part. Let's timeskip to 1816. Ever since the start of the revolution, the viceroyalty of the Plata River, the only thing that was constant was war. It was being attacked by the Capitancy General of Chile, now formerly Chile, and High Peru, now formerly Perú, and civil wars because of the royalist that did not support the revolution. It was impossible to win because they could "restock" their resources faster than "we" could, because our industries and capitol were farther. Mind you, the territories were like this. We weren't allies with Oriental Province (formerly Urugay), so no help was going to come.
To add up to this mess, given the VPR no longer had Spain biting on our heels and we couldn't trade with High Peru— who sold their precious metals for the production—, they started trading with the English instead, which not only JUST benefited Buenos Aires and the Litoral because they had ports, if your industry wasn't funded on exporting it, you went bankrupt, because surely it was imported from the ✨️english✨️, who were already industrialized, which was cheaper to buy. If not, the war all around would isolate you. And if not, and you worked with meat, the goverment would confiscate your product to feed the military with it, and you gained zero profit. Mostly because the goverment didn't have any— they didn't tax a thing, so the state money was nonexistent. That's why the Buenos Aires elites were so hated. But also, so that the goverment had money for the war, they forced loans and voluntary contributions, which were pressured the most on peninsular (european) merchants. Why? Because they were spanish. Yeah, they were the scapegoat, labeled as royalist from beginning to end.
So, they organized a congress to dispute what to do with the viceroyalty instead of adding another fight to the list. A lot of deputies from most Revolutionary territories (Oriental Province, VPR and Paraguay, at least) gathered in a congress in Tucumán and not in the one in Buenos Aires— even if the capitol was, and still is, settled there, they didn't want anymore problems about the power being centered in Buenos Aires and its elite. So, they gathered in Tucumán, a province in the interior and far from the port, where part of the war happened. Though, not every deputy from VPR attended, just some Saavedrists, the most conservative minded, and it took months for them to get there and months to agree on something. There were multiple ideas about what to do: be a spanish dependent territory, be an english colony or be independent.
But there's another cherry to this cake: the fall of Napoleon and ascend of Fernando VII back to the throne. As soon as he sat down he evidenced he wouldn't give autonomy to his provinces, he yelled "AVENGERS, ASSEMBLE" to the other monarchs (I'm sorry, I really wanted to make that joke), and they gathered on their own, England included (this will be important later). They agreed to firm the Intervension Principle: it was an agreement that, if any monarch needed help regaining a colony, they all would coup up and help. That forced the revolutionaries to completely scratch the first two options. That meant NO autonomy or becoming an english colony.
So, because we were fucked, we decided to send it all to hell and announce our independence— with lots of wars guaranteed. Peru (not its name then, but you get it) was a spanish supporter, so San Martin (a founding father and THE argentinian general) wanted to go through our chilean allies to attack from shore and land. Until the Royalists took Chile and we had to fight them too.
Long story short, we managed to free chile after climbing the Andes on top of mules and donkeys, and then fight Peru.
And then came the LOTS of forms of goverments. We disassembled (each province had their own goverment), had rural military that represented provinces (called caudillos), they fell, Buenos Aires reassembled all the country, and blah blah blah.
I made this WAYYY longer than I wanted it to be, and it took me AGES. I am sorry asker :'<
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