While these notes come and go, several army chiefs, three villagers from the region and a surveyor engineer founded the Protective Fortress in the Bahía Blanca. This has happened on April 9, and, as documented, it has been done according to the very thorough instructions given by Rosas, his true and only founder.

He did not forget a detail, however insignificant it was: from the plan and drawing of the floor of the fort that will be built, to the ram hides that must be taken to “occur with them soaked in water to extinguish any burning that may get up or feel at the establishment. ”

He must have gone himself, leading an expedition to which hundreds of countrymen had decided to add. But in those days he has presented his resignation, perhaps caused by Dorrego, who has looked with evil eyes at such a concentration of armed men.

More than a century has passed. The Protective Fortress is today Bahia Blanca: one of the richest and most beautiful cities in Argentina. The hatred of Rosas, which does not diminish with the years, has achieved that, in the official history, the founders of the city are those soldiers to whom he sent and to whom he gave his instructions in writing. Injustice and misery of men!

Galvez, Manuel: Life of Juan Manuel de Rosas. Buenos Aires: Editorial Heliasta, 1940, p. 75-76