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Adventuring Through Spanish Colonies: Simon Bolivar, Foreign Mercenaries and the Birth of New Nations

Adventuring Through Spanish Colonies: Simon Bolivar, Foreign Mercenaries and the Birth of New Nations

Brown, Matthew

Paperback

Series: Liverpool Latin American Studies, Book 8

South American History

ISBN10: 184631044X
ISBN13: 9781846310447
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Mar 1 2007
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.24 Depth: 9.14
Language: English
Between 1810 and 1825, 7,000 English, Scottish and Irish mercenaries sailed to Gran Colombia to fight against Spanish colonial rule under the rebel forces of Simón Bolívar. Their motives were mixed. Some travelled for money, others travelled for honour. Adventuring Through Spanish Colonies
explores the lives of these men - their encounters with other soldiers, indigenous people, local women and slaves - as recounted in documents that fall outside the usual remit of military, political and economic historians. Matthew Brown considers the social and cultural aspects of the presence of

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