Voyage to South America: Performed by Order of the American Government, in the Years 1817 and 1818, in the Frigate Congress, Том 2author, John D. Toy, printer, 1819 |
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... head , not soldiers by pro- fession , but probably not wanting in courage to face an invading enemy . In the short and superficial con- versations which usually took place , much informa- tion could not be gleaned ; they generally ...
... head , not soldiers by pro- fession , but probably not wanting in courage to face an invading enemy . In the short and superficial con- versations which usually took place , much informa- tion could not be gleaned ; they generally ...
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... head . It would certainly have been a phenomenon to have found a revolutionary patriot at his years , with his pre- vious education and habits . Mr. Rodney and myself , paid a visit to a respectable old man , who fills the office which ...
... head . It would certainly have been a phenomenon to have found a revolutionary patriot at his years , with his pre- vious education and habits . Mr. Rodney and myself , paid a visit to a respectable old man , who fills the office which ...
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... head of five or six thousand men . We learned , that besides the regular post establishment which brought the mail once a week from the different provinces , there were expresses con- tinually employed between this place and Chili , as ...
... head of five or six thousand men . We learned , that besides the regular post establishment which brought the mail once a week from the different provinces , there were expresses con- tinually employed between this place and Chili , as ...
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... head of the government who pleased him , he would join it . I inquired whether they could tell me his ultimate aim , if he neither aspired to be at the head of the confederacy himself , nor was determined to be entirely independ- ent ...
... head of the government who pleased him , he would join it . I inquired whether they could tell me his ultimate aim , if he neither aspired to be at the head of the confederacy himself , nor was determined to be entirely independ- ent ...
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... head . They were , therefore , justifiable not only in expelling the Spaniards , but in placing things on such a footing as to prevent the recurrence of the for- mer mischief . The same course would have been pursued by us , had we made ...
... head . They were , therefore , justifiable not only in expelling the Spaniards , but in placing things on such a footing as to prevent the recurrence of the for- mer mischief . The same course would have been pursued by us , had we made ...
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army army of Peru Artigas audiencia authority Banda Oriental Belgrano Brazil Buenos Ayres cabildo called capital Carrera cause character Charcas Chili circumstance citizens civil Cochabamba colonies command commerce compelled congress considerable Cordillera Cordova coun creoles Cusco Cuyo declared despotism districts effect enemies established Europe European Spaniards executive favor feelings force habits hundred important independence Indians inhabitants Jesuits junta La Paz La Plata liberty Liniers ment miles military mines Monte Video mountains nations native nature neighboring O'Higgins officers pampas Paraguay Parana party patriots persons plains Plata political population possession Potosi present prevailed principal produce provinces of Peru Pueyrredon render republic respect revolution river royalists Salta San Martin Santa Fee situation South America Spain Spaniards Spanish success thing thousand tion town trade troops Tucuman United Provinces Upper Peru vernment viceroy viceroyalty vinces
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Страница 117 - Art thou, too, fallen, Iberia ? Do we see The robber and the murderer weak as we ? Thou ! that has wasted earth and dared despise Alike the wrath and mercy of the skies, Thy pomp is in the grave ; thy glory laid Low in the pit thine avarice has made.
Страница 326 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil...
Страница 106 - The plan in my opinion ought to be — a fleet of Great Britain, an army of the United States, a government for the liberated territory agreeable to both the co-operators, about which there will be no difficulty. To arrange the plan a competent authority from Great Britain to some person here, is the best expedient. Your presence here will, in this case, be extremely essential. We are raising an army of about twelve thousand men. General Washington has resumed his station at the head of our armies....
Страница 369 - They have chased our vessels, sacked our sea-coasts, murdered defenceless inhabitants,without sparing clergymen, and those in extreme old age ; by the order of General Pezuela, they burnt the town of Puno, and meeting with no others, they put to the sword old men, women, and children. They have excited atrocious conspiracies among the Spaniards residing in the midst of us, imposing upon us the painful necessity of putting to death the fathers of numerous families. They have compelled our brothers...
Страница 371 - ... pardon. It is in the name of Ferdinand of Bourbon that the heads of patriot officers, prisoners, are fixed up in the highways, that they beat and stoned to death a commandant of light troops, and that, after having killed Colonel...
Страница 106 - But this can now scarcely be the case. The winter, however, may mature the project, and an effectual co-operation by the United States may take place. In this case I shall be happy, in my official station, to be an instrument of so good a work.
Страница 367 - Antesana to be shot, and, observing with complacency, from the balcony of his house, this iniquitous assassination, ferociously cried out to his troops not to shoot the victim in the head, as it was wanted to be stuck upon a pike.
Страница 362 - All public offices and employments belonged exclusively to the Spaniards; and although Americans were equally called to them by the laws, they were appointed only in rare instances, and even then not without satiating the cupidity of the Court by enormous sums of money. Of one hundred and seventy Viceroys that have governed in this country, but four of them have been.