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Machado, Benito

Index: Biografía de Tadeo Isidoro Cruz, El Aleph, OC,Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 562.
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Argentine colonel, 1823-1909, important in the Argentine army's campaigns against the Indians in the province of Buenos Aires

Fishburn and Hughes: "An Argentine military commander who in 1863 directed a campaign against the Indians in the southern pampas. The suggestion that Martín Fierro was conscripted to his forces is not mentioned in the poem." (122)