Lautaro Lodge

The Lautaro Lodge (

Absolutist Restoration

they promoted instead the emancipation of the South American colonies.

Creation in Europe

It was for many years believed to have been founded as an extension of the British lodge "The Great American Reunion", created by

secret societies merely as a tool to promote liberal agendas, evading punishment from absolutist governments of the time.^[1]

Buenos Aires

A number of officers from the Peninsular War, such as José de San Martín, Carlos María de Alvear, José Matías Zapiola, Francisco Chilavert and Eduardo Kailitz left Cádiz and moved to Buenos Aires. They began to organize a secret lodge, similar to the one in Cádiz. There were other secret lodges already working in Buenos Aires: the anglophile lodges "Hiram sons" and "Southern Star", and the "Patriotic Society" that united the former supporters of Mariano Moreno. This last lodge, opposed to the first two ones, was integrated into the new one created by the Spanish generals.^[3]

Name

Although the lodge is most commonly known as "Lautaro", it did not employ that name during all of its existence. The name made reference to

Disaster of Rancagua. Although the secrecy makes difficult to investigate the purposes or even the name, Alcibíades Lappas considers instead that the lodge was named "Lodge of Rational Knights" in 1812, just like the Cádiz one, and that San Martín renamed it "Lautaro" when he recreated it in 1815, after the fall of Alvear.^[5]

Bibliography

ISBN 978-950-581-779-5
.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "General Francisco de Miranda Father of Revolutionary Masonry in Latin America" Archived 2009-10-23 at the Wayback Machine by Carlos Antonio Martinez, Northern California Research Lodge
^ ^a ^b Galasso, p. 52
^ Galasso, pp.77-78
^ ^a ^b Galasso, p. 79
^ Galasso, pp. 79-80

[carl-1] "General Francisco de Miranda Father of Revolutionary Masonry in Latin America" Archived 2009-10-23 at the Wayback Machine by Carlos Antonio Martinez, Northern California Research Lodge

[cinco_dos-2] Galasso, p. 52

[3] Galasso, pp.77-78

[Galasso79-4] Galasso, p. 79

[5] Galasso, pp. 79-80

[1]

[3]

[5]