Impious adventurers? : mercenaries, honour and patriotism in the Wars of Independence in Gran Colombia
This is a study of the British and Irish mercenaries who travelled to Venezuela, New Granada and Ecuador to fight in Simon Bolivar's armies against Spanish rule in the years 1810-1830. It revises conventional assumptions about foreign involvement in the Independence of Gran Colombia by situatin...
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University College London (University of London)
2004
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.409403 |
