Lucio V. Mansilla

Lucio Victorio Mansilla (December 23, 1831 – October 8, 1913) was an Argentinean general, journalist, politician and diplomat. He was later governor of the territory of the Gran Chaco between 1878 and 1879. His best-known literary work is An Excursion to the Ranqueles Indians, which was the result of a tour he undertook in 1870 through the villages of indigenous peoples. Early life and family Mansilla was born in a house in the Montserrat neighborhood, on the corner of Tacuarí and Potosí streets (today Alsina), known in colonial times as "the old prison" on December 23, 1831 (Saint Victoria's Day). He was the first-born son of federal colonel Lucio Norberto Mansilla, the hero of the Battle of the Vuelta de Obligado, and Agustina Ortiz de Rozas, tenth sister and younger sister of Juan Manuel de Rosas, a 15-year-old girl who was called the beauty of the federation. Her sister was the writer and journalist Eduarda Mansilla. After finishing school, he was employed in a local firm, where he kept the accounting books. He met and fell in love with one of his cousins, Catalina, with which he would then marry.