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256 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781845114466
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Publication date: 15 December 2007
Description
In 1818, the revolutionary government of Chile was poised to attack Peru, the last bastion of Spanish power on the continent. The new ruler, the half-Irish Bernardo O'Higgins, threw his energies into creating a navy. Short of local naval manpower,...
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256 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781845114466
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Publication date: 15 December 2007
Description
In 1818, the revolutionary government of Chile was poised to attack Peru, the last bastion of Spanish power on the continent. The new ruler, the half-Irish Bernardo O'Higgins, threw his energies into creating a navy. Short of local naval manpower,...