Cochrane in the Pacific: Fortune and Freedom in Spanish America by Brian Vale

Cochrane in the Pacific: Fortune and Freedom in Spanish America

Brian Vale

256 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

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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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