Las apuradas críticas circunstancias en que estubo esta Capital....

This letter signed by Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros, is dated one day after the "May Revolution" (Revolución de Mayo). The May Revolution was a week-long series of events that took place from May 18 to 25, 1810, in Buenos Aires and the ended with the removal of Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros as a Vicerroy. The May Revolution was a direct reaction to Spain's Peninsular War. When the news that both, the king of Spain and the Junta, were removed of power, arrived in Buenos Aires on May 18. many people thought that Cisneros had no legitimacy to govern.

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