This march, composed by Second Lieutenant and Band Director Liberato Salvini at the end of the 19th Century, recalls the former denomination of the Argentine Army. Established by the first government in May 1810, the Army used various denomination criteria throughout its almost two centuries of existence.
During the wars of Independence, it was customary to design armies according to the names of the targets that gave rise to their constitution, such as, for example, the Army for Operations in the East Riverbank (currently the Republic of Uruguay), the Army of the North, the Army of the Andes, etc.
The creation of the National Army, then also called Republican Army, was resolved by law of the General Constitutional Assembly of 1825, on the eve of the War with Brazil. After Rosas period, a national army as such was structured for the War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1869).
The creation of the National Military Academy by President Domingo F. Sarmiento in 1869, and the law on Compulsory Military Service of December 6, 1896, were important landmarks in the establishment of an army at a national scale.
The current denomination of Argentine Army replaced that of National Army by a law of 1922, based, among other reasons, on the patriotic obligation of denominating the army in the same terms as the people that give it sustenance and which it safeguards.
