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

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

Matthew Brown

266 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

informative medium-paced

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Between 1810 and 1825, seven thousand British, Scottish, and Irish mercenaries traveled to Gran Colombia to fight against Spanish colonial rule under the rebel forces of Simón Bolívar.Their motives were mixed. Some traveled for money, others for h...

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