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Write the continuation of this text: He began his public performance around 1811, when he commanded two hundred men in the campaigns that would culminate in the battle of Las Piedras and the siege of Montevideo. He effectively controlled the region north of the Negro River, and accompanied Artigas to Ayuí after the armistice of 1811. He was head of an auxiliary force of Artigas in the eastern area of ​​Corrientes, when after the raids of the Portuguese through that area , the small local leaders supported Artigas's opposition to the porteños. He gathered large groups of Corrientes gauchos and Indians, with whom he faced the Portuguese attacks, and also the Corrientes governments enemies of Artigas. Of short stature, his leadership capacity made that characteristic stand out more.<end_of_turn>
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La batalla de Las Piedras. <end_of_turn><eos>