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Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Recollections of a Service of Three Years During the War-of-extermination in the Republics of Venezuela and Columbia
Author: Recollections of a Service of Three Years During the War-of-extermination in the Republics of Venezuela and Colombia
Author: Recollections of a service of three years during the war-of-extermination in the republics of Venezuela and Colombia
Author: VenezuelaNineteenth-Century British Perspectives on Spanish America
Author: Marisa Palacios KnoxPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003855547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The sources in this volume focus on Great Britain’s moral, financial, and diplomatic interventions and ambitions in Latin America. It begins during the wars of independence spanning 1810-1825, when Foreign Secretary George Canning prematurely declared, "Spanish America is free; and if we do not mismanage our affairs sadly, she is English." The independence movements of the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies, as well as their ancient past, inspired Romantic writers such as Anna Letitia Barbauld and spurred British military support and political debate, as attested by mercenary Richard Vowell’s Campaigns and Cruises in Venezuela and James Mill's "Emancipation of Spanish America."
Conquer or Die!
Author: Ben HughesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849089248
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The true 'Boy's Own' adventure of the British volunteers who survived shipwreck, duels, mutinies, wild animals and malaria to fight with Simon Bolivar, 1815–21. In the aftermath of Waterloo, over 6,000 British volunteers sailed across the Atlantic to aid Simon Bolivar in his liberation of Gran Columbia from her oppressors in Madrid. The expeditions were plagued with disaster from the start, one ship sank shortly after leaving Portsmouth with the loss of almost 200 lives. Those who reached the New World faced disease, wild animals, mutiny and desertion. Conditions on campaign were appalling, massacres were commonplace, rations crude, pay infrequent and supplies insufficient. Nevertheless, those who endured made key contributions to Bolivar's success.
List of Books on Latin American History and Description (with Reference to Articles in Magazines) in the Columbus Memorial Library ...
Author: Columbus Memorial LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Literature of Travel and Exploration: R to Z, index
Author: Jennifer SpeakePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781579584405
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Alphabetical Catalogue of the Navy Department Library
Author: United States. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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