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THE SWISS COLONY OF URUGUAY. DAVID SALOMÓN BRATSCHI, THE FIRST SETTLER OF "NUEVA HELVECIA"
CARO MARICE ETT
- Editorial
- INGRAM
- Año edición
- 2015
- ISBN
- 978-0-692-59318-9
- Encuadernación
- Rústica
- Páginas
- 106
- Idioma
- Castellano
. T he changes brought by the industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century forced many Europeans to travel to the Americas looking for a better future for their families and new business ventures. Among them were two Swiss individuals from the Canton of Bern, Carlos Augusto Cunier and David Solomon Bratschi. T hey came together in 1858 to the future Swiss colony of Nueva Helvecia in the state of Colonia in Uruguay. Cunier a businessman, purchased farmland from the Sociedad Argricola del Rosario Oriental to resale to Swiss settlers that began arriving in 1861. Bratschi an immigrant, settled with his family in the land allocated for agricultural settlers, thus becoming the first Swiss settler who came three years before the rest of the Swiss immigrants. T he new immigration law of Uruguay of 1853 welcomed European settlers offering ten years free taxation, and total auton