The General Martín Miguel de Güemes was one of the founding fathers of the independence Aregentina. A native of the province of Salta, in the end N.O. in the country, developed its military campaigns in the region, keeping realistic troops trying to penetrate from the high Peru.muchos years earlier, when he was only a second lieutenant and was in Buenos Aires (where had gone to study military career), he starred in a unique fact in the world history of all the marinas of war : the approach and it takes of a ship of war by a charge of cavalry. It was the year 1806, when the first of two invasions English occurs (the second was in 1807) to the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (today Rep. Argentina). He 12 of August, the ship English Justina is was anchored in the river of the silver facing the coast of Quilmes (ones 20 Km to the H.E. of Buenos Aires), keeping to stripe from that position to them troops River Plate through his artillery, and waiting for orders for approach is to Buenos Aires for add is to the rest of them invaders. Suddenly it began to blow an intense wind of the OS that caused the waters to withdraw toward the Uruguayan coast. The large downpipe made that frigate was completely right and escorada more than 30 degrees to the side of the coast, by what its cannons were completely useless pointing to mud. Taking advantage of this situation, the Güemes Ensign in front of his squad, which at that time they were the only mounted men who were in the vicinity, he ordered a fulminant cavalry charge, reaching the ship, addressing it, and after fierce fighting managed to reduce the crew and the soldiers of infantry carrying, taking the ship and making prisoners to the survivors. This action does not has no parallel in the history of the war naval or terrestrial. Almost all Argentine cities have streets that bear the name of Guemes.te command a greeting.
It is a surname from the North of Spain, (Cantabria, Burgos, country Vasco ) whereby we have news documented since the 18th century. It is also a Valley and a village in the municipality of Bareyo in the Comunidad de Cantabria, of about 300 inhabitants, situated a few kilometres from the coast. His name appears in a document of the 11th century.
