Letters on South America: Comprising Travels on the Banks of the Paraná and Rio de la Plata, Volume 2J. Murray, 1843 Collection of letters written to General William Miller, Field Marshall of Peru. |
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... Buenos Ayres Road and Pantanos - A Coach preferable to Horse- manship Page 35 LETTER XXVII . THE AUTHORS TO GENERAL MILLER . Great Change for the better , wrought by the Revolution in Buenos Ayres - The Porteños try to please John Bull ...
... Buenos Ayres Road and Pantanos - A Coach preferable to Horse- manship Page 35 LETTER XXVII . THE AUTHORS TO GENERAL MILLER . Great Change for the better , wrought by the Revolution in Buenos Ayres - The Porteños try to please John Bull ...
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... Buenos Ayres - Instal- lation of the Junta - First Acknowledgment of its Autho- rity - The Commissioner Cardoso - Pino's Retreat - Supre macy of the Junta - Buenos Ayres Press - Oidores - Their Expulsion - Adhesion of the Provinces to ...
... Buenos Ayres - Instal- lation of the Junta - First Acknowledgment of its Autho- rity - The Commissioner Cardoso - Pino's Retreat - Supre macy of the Junta - Buenos Ayres Press - Oidores - Their Expulsion - Adhesion of the Provinces to ...
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... Buenos Ayres bombarded - An Englishman afraid - Michelena , commander of the blockading Vessels , and the Washer- women - Siege of Monte Video - The Junta of Three- Treaty of Pacification with Monte Video - Military Revolt -Government's ...
... Buenos Ayres bombarded - An Englishman afraid - Michelena , commander of the blockading Vessels , and the Washer- women - Siege of Monte Video - The Junta of Three- Treaty of Pacification with Monte Video - Military Revolt -Government's ...
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... Buenos Ayres - General Success of the Patriots - Admiral Brown - Capture of the Fleet of Monte Video - His Trium- phant Entry into Buenos Ayres - Mr . White LETTER XXXVII . THE AUTHORS TO GENERAL MILLER . General Alvear takes Monte ...
... Buenos Ayres - General Success of the Patriots - Admiral Brown - Capture of the Fleet of Monte Video - His Trium- phant Entry into Buenos Ayres - Mr . White LETTER XXXVII . THE AUTHORS TO GENERAL MILLER . General Alvear takes Monte ...
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... Buenos Ayres - Its Extent and Bounda- ries - The Grecian Republics - Origin of the name of the River Plate The City of Buenos Ayres - Its Trade and Population - Its Debt to England - Trade of Buenos Ayres with other Countries ...
... Buenos Ayres - Its Extent and Bounda- ries - The Grecian Republics - Origin of the name of the River Plate The City of Buenos Ayres - Its Trade and Population - Its Debt to England - Trade of Buenos Ayres with other Countries ...
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admired affairs Alvear Alzaga arms army army of Peru Artigas AUTHORS Ayreans Balcarce Banda Oriental Belgrano British brother Buenos Ayres bull BULL FIGHTS Cabildo called capital CAPTAIN M'DOUGALL Chile Cisneros Cochabamba Colonel comandante comandante's command Congress convite Cordova Corrientes decree Desaguadero Don Baltazar Don Manuel Doña Duval Elio enemy English executive favour force Gonzalez governor Goya Goyeneche Guasú hand honour horse inhabitants Juan Junta ladies LETTER Liniers London Martin de Alzaga ment military MILLER Monte Video Mora Moreno native never night o'clock officer Oidores old Spaniards Oruro pampero Paraguay Paraná party patriots Peru Plata political port Porteños Potosi prisoners provinces Pueyrredon PUEYRREDON'S RETREAT revolution River Plate Rondeau Rosa Rosita Saavedra San José San Martin sent soldiers South American Spain Spanish spirits Supreme Director tion took town troops Tucuman vessel viceroy Vigodet whole wind Your's
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Página 251 - Talibus orabat dictis, arasque tenebat, cum sic orsa loqui vates : ' Sate sanguine divom, 125 Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Averno ; noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis ; sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hie labor est.
Página 117 - ... the prejudices which are favourable to tyranny, that if we should unhappily be succeeded by men of sentiments less pure than ourselves, they may not find in the customs of the people any thing to assist them in mocking at their rights. This preamble was followed by a decree, that there should be an absolute, perfect, and identical equality, between the president and the other members of the junta. Four of the articles of this decree show curiously in what manner these men were juggling the people.
Página 257 - ... are guided by justice, do hereby solemnly declare in the face of the world that it is the unanimous and indubitable will of these Provinces to dissolve the intolerable bonds which hitherto connected them with the Kings of Spain, to recover the rights of which they were divested, and to clothe themselves with the high character of a free nation, independent of Kinç Ferdinand VII, his successors, and the mother country.
Página 257 - Power who presides over the universe, in the name and by the authority of the people whom we represent...
Página 256 - ... city of San Miguel del Tucuman, on the 9th of July, 1816, the ordinary sitting having terminated, the Congress of the United Provinces continued its former discussion on the great and august object of the independence of the countries which form them: constant and decided was the cry of the whole land for its solemn emancipation from the despotic power of the kings of Spain ; but the representatives, nevertheless, consecrated to so great a...
Página 247 - Fe, a popular movement took place, which had for its object a system of absolute equality; but it was put down by the bayonets of General Viamont, a blunt and honest soldier, but a great disciplinarian, who had long ruled the inhabitants rather despotically, and who, accustoraed to rigid military subordination, was anything but a forbearing sub-delegate from the metropolis.