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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: VenezuelaConquer 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.
Reimagining the Transatlantic, 1780-1890
Author: Joselyn M. AlmeidaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317068580
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
In her thought-provoking study of Britain's relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean during the Romantic and Victorian periods, Joselyn M. Almeida makes a compelling case for extending the critical boundaries of current transatlantic and circumatlantic scholarship. She proposes the pan-Atlantic as a critical model that encompasses Britain's relationship to the non-Anglophone Americas given their shared history of conquest and the slave trade, and underscores the importance of writings by Afro-British and Afro-Hispanophone authors in formulating Atlantic culture. In adopting the term pan-Atlantic, Almeida argues for the interrelationship of the discourses of discovery, conquest, enslavement, and liberation expressed in literary motifs such as the New World, Columbus, and Las Casas; the representation of Native Americans; the enslavement and liberation of Africans; and the emancipation of Spanish America. Her study draws on the works of William Robertson, Ottobah Cugoano, Francisco Clavijero, Francisco Miranda, José Blanco White, Richard Robert Madden, Juan Manzano, Charles Darwin, and W. H. Hudson, uncovering the shared cultural grammar of travel narratives, abolitionist poems, novels, and historiographies that crosses national and linguistic boundaries.
Edwards's Military Catalogue
Author: Francis Edwards (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences
Author: Columbia University Studies in the Social Sciences
Author: Catalogue of books belonging to the library of the British factory, St. Petersburg
Author: Leningrad Brit. factory, librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description