# The New Troy > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_New_Troy > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_New_Troy.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Troy > Source revision: 1353370810 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1850 novel by Alexandre Dumas Montevideo, or the new Troy Title page for Montevideo, ou une nouvelle Troie (1850) Author Alexandre Dumas Original title Montevideo, ou une nouvelle Troie Language French Publication date 1850 Publication place France ***Montevideo, or the new Troy*** ([French](/source/French_language): *Montevideo, ou une nouvelle Troie*) is an 1850 novel by [Alexandre Dumas](/source/Alexandre_Dumas). It is a [historical novel](/source/Historical_novel) about the [Uruguayan Civil War](/source/Uruguayan_Civil_War), where the Uruguayan presidents [Manuel Oribe](/source/Manuel_Oribe) and [Fructuoso Rivera](/source/Fructuoso_Rivera) disputed the rule of the country. The name sets a parallelism with the [Trojan War](/source/Trojan_War), as Oribe kept [Montevideo](/source/Montevideo), capital of Uruguay, under siege for many years (known as the [Great Siege of Montevideo](/source/Great_Siege_of_Montevideo)). The plot of the book makes a summary of the history of Uruguay, from Spanish colonization to the Civil War. [Juan Manuel de Rosas](/source/Juan_Manuel_de_Rosas), [Juan Facundo Quiroga](/source/Juan_Facundo_Quiroga), [José Gervasio Artigas](/source/Jos%C3%A9_Gervasio_Artigas), [Bernardino Rivadavia](/source/Bernardino_Rivadavia), and [Giuseppe Garibaldi](/source/Giuseppe_Garibaldi) are thus treated as literary characters.[1] Dumas describes Artigas and Rosas as [barbaric](/source/Barbarian), and Montevideo as a source of civilization. A similar dichotomy between civilization and barbarism was the theme of *[Facundo](/source/Facundo)*, another antirosist book published by [Domingo Faustino Sarmiento](/source/Domingo_Faustino_Sarmiento) in 1845.[2] Dumas described Rosas, who supported Oribe, as a coward who avoided the [Argentine War of Independence](/source/Argentine_War_of_Independence) and took control of [Buenos Aires](/source/Buenos_Aires) with a barbaric horde, and Montevideo as a heroic city standing against him.[3] Dumas had never been to Uruguay, nor known first-hand about the war. His work was based on the reports of the antirosist [Melchor Pacheco](/source/Melchor_Pacheco_y_Obes), who sought French support against Rosas, and thus twisted the information about Rosas' administration in order to get such support.[2][3] It is likely that the similarities with Sarmiento's book were introduced by Pacheco's, as it would have been unlikely that Dumas had read the former's work.[4] The book has been edited twice in Argentina, once during the 1960s and again in 2005.[1][5] An English translation has been available for Amazon Kindle since 2019.[1][6] ## See also - [Troy](/source/Troy) ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Paradigma_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Paradigma_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Paradigma_1-2) [Reseña de NUEVA TROYA, LA](http://www.paradigmalibros.com/9789872218119/NUEVA+TROYA,+LA) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030424/http://www.paradigmalibros.com/9789872218119/NUEVA+TROYA,+LA) 2016-03-04 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) (in Spanish) 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Leedor_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Leedor_2-1) [La Nueva Troya](http://www.leedor.com/notas/2277---la_nueva_troya.html) (in Spanish) 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Pagina_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Pagina_3-1) ["Página/12 :: libros"](http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/libros/10-1861-2005-12-07.html). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Bohemio de las pampas](http://www.elpais.com.uy/Suple/Cultural/07/06/01/cultural_283747.asp) (in Spanish) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Dumas, Alexandre; Waksman, Alejandro (2005). [*La nueva Troya*](https://books.google.com/books?id=v2rwonZ1qJwC). Marea Editorial. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9789872218119](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789872218119). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [*Montevideo, or the new Troy*](https://www.amazon.com/Alexander-Dumas-ebook/dp/B07Z32FFQY). October 12, 2019). 12 October 2019. v t e Alexandre Dumas père Novels The Conspirators The Count of Monte Cristo The Countess of Salisbury The Three Musketeers The Fencing Master The Corsican Brothers The Black Tulip Captain Pamphile Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge La Dame de Monsoreau Georges The Knight of Sainte-Hermine The Queen's Necklace La Reine Margot The New Troy Twenty Years After The Two Dianas The Vicomte de Bragelonne The Companions of Jehu The Wolf Leader La Sanfelice The Women's War Travelogues Le Speronare Le Capitaine Aréna Le Corricolo Characters Edmond Dantès Aramis Athos Milady de Winter Porthos Comte de Rochefort Related Alexandre Dumas fils (son) Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (father) Marie-Cessette Dumas (grandmother) Auguste Maquet (collaborator) Théâtre Historique Château de Monte-Cristo L'Autre Dumas (2010 film) Orson Welles and People (lost documentary) Authority control databases: National Spain --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [The New Troy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Troy) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Troy?action=history)). 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