South America's Guerra Grande is the Spanish name for what country's mid-1800s civil war?

After gaining their independence after the Cisplatine War, the leaders of Uruguay began a period of infighting that culminated in the Guerra Grande. The "Great War", which took place from 1839 to 1851, was fought between the Colorados and the Blancos, of which the Colorados won.

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