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History of the Hamilton Family in Argentina

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Objective I. Chronologically, tell the story of the Hamilton family in Argentina, Starting in 1824, when Robert Hamilton first came to B.A.  Response 1824 - Robert Hamilton comes to Argentina for the first time in search of a better economical life for his family. 1826 - A letter is sent to Robert. It says that his son William has been born. Robert rents some land in Buenos Aires (50,000 acres). 1837 - He returns to England to visit his wife Nell and his son William. 1838 - Thomas Hamilton, Robert’s second son, is born. 1840 - Sebastian Hamilton, Robert’s third son, is born. 1846 - Robert travels to England in order to visit again to his family. 1850 - Nell Hamilton, after having miscarried a baby, dies from childbed fever. Robert returns to Argentina, he takes William with him and leaves Sebastian and Thomas with their aunt Letitia. In a visit to Robert’s estancia, Robert and his son find an Argentinian girl named María who was almost dead. She tells them that her parents had been killed by the Governor Rosas’ Military men. Rosas had also stated that her land was now his. Some months later, William lets María know that she is with child due to the abuse she had to bear. Robert Hamilton marries María and recuperates her lands but he doesn't give them to her, he just keeps her family’s 100,000 acres of land. 1852 - María’s child is born and she decides to name her Manuela. 1854 - Frederick, María Rodriguez and Robert Hamilton´s son, is born.  1864 - Robert asks his youngest sons to come to Argentina with him. When they come to this country, Robert and William tell them the way in which Robert has got all that land he owns. They are taken to the estancia which they would baptize as "Los Mistos." Sebastian meets Lucero, a gaucho who would come to be one of his closest friends. 1865 - Robert goes to Los Misros to visit his sons. Sebastian runs a race against a gaucho called Mariano at Silverio’s pulpería. He loses the race because of Mariano’s cheat, so he fights against his to recover his honour. He wins the fight but, unfortunately, he loses his left arm. 1866 - Thomas builds an enormous house for him and his family. Thomas and Winifred’s son, Albert, is born. Objective II. When and why did Robert decide to come for the first time to our country? Response Robert’s father told him stories about the Argentine and its gauchos when he was a little boy and since that moment he had the idea of coming to “the new world” he was told about. When he grew up and formed a family with his wife and a baby to be born, he decided to travel to our country because they were very poor and he couldn't find a well paid job in England. He would always remember his father’s words. He said to Robert that Argentina would benefit and enrich those who bought land to be worked. Objective III. Analyze Thomas and Sebastian’s conversation. What do you think about it considering that they are two children talking?  Response Although the fact that Thomas and Sebastian were just children when their mother passed awa

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