Letters on South America: Comprising Travels on the Banks of the Paraná and Rio de la Plata, Volume 2J. Murray, 1843 - Argentina Collection of letters written to General William Miller, Field Marshall of Peru. |
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... Banda Oriental- Buenos Ayres Congress - The Portuguese - The Prince Regent of Brazil - Captain Elliot , of the sloop - of - war Mutine - A new Junta in Buenos Ayres - Belgrano , Ron- deau , and Artigas , on the Banda Oriental - Elio ...
... Banda Oriental- Buenos Ayres Congress - The Portuguese - The Prince Regent of Brazil - Captain Elliot , of the sloop - of - war Mutine - A new Junta in Buenos Ayres - Belgrano , Ron- deau , and Artigas , on the Banda Oriental - Elio ...
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... Banda Oriental , by means of a force to be immediately despatched for that purpose . * " Such , " says the estimable and judicious author from whom we have taken the foregoing account , " such was the first most popular assembly which ...
... Banda Oriental , by means of a force to be immediately despatched for that purpose . * " Such , " says the estimable and judicious author from whom we have taken the foregoing account , " such was the first most popular assembly which ...
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... Banda Oriental , led the way in tendering its obedience to the military comandante there ; and Don Ramon del Pino sent in his adhesion to the Junta with every demonstration of zeal for the cause . " The promptitude of Pino was nothing ...
... Banda Oriental , led the way in tendering its obedience to the military comandante there ; and Don Ramon del Pino sent in his adhesion to the Junta with every demonstration of zeal for the cause . " The promptitude of Pino was nothing ...
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... Banda Oriental - Buenos Ayres Congress- The Portuguese - The Prince Regent of Brazil - Captain Elliot , of the sloop - of - war Mutine - A new Junta in Buenos Ayres— Belgrano , Rondeau , and Artigas , on the Banda Oriental - Elio shut ...
... Banda Oriental - Buenos Ayres Congress- The Portuguese - The Prince Regent of Brazil - Captain Elliot , of the sloop - of - war Mutine - A new Junta in Buenos Ayres— Belgrano , Rondeau , and Artigas , on the Banda Oriental - Elio shut ...
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... , having performed this timely service , returned with his troops to Paraguay , leaving the Correntinos at liberty to govern themselves . They forthwith 130 WAR IN THE BANDA ORIENTAL . incorporated their province G 3.
... , having performed this timely service , returned with his troops to Paraguay , leaving the Correntinos at liberty to govern themselves . They forthwith 130 WAR IN THE BANDA ORIENTAL . incorporated their province G 3.
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Page 251 - Talibus orabat dictis, arasque tenebat, cum sic orsa loqui vates : ' Sate sanguine divom, 125 Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Averno ; noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis ; sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hie labor est.
Page 117 - ... the prejudices which are favourable to tyranny, that if we should unhappily be succeeded by men of sentiments less pure than ourselves, they may not find in the customs of the people any thing to assist them in mocking at their rights. This preamble was followed by a decree, that there should be an absolute, perfect, and identical equality, between the president and the other members of the junta. Four of the articles of this decree show curiously in what manner these men were juggling the people.
Page 257 - ... are guided by justice, do hereby solemnly declare in the face of the world that it is the unanimous and indubitable will of these Provinces to dissolve the intolerable bonds which hitherto connected them with the Kings of Spain, to recover the rights of which they were divested, and to clothe themselves with the high character of a free nation, independent of Kinç Ferdinand VII, his successors, and the mother country.
Page 257 - Power who presides over the universe, in the name and by the authority of the people whom we represent...
Page 256 - ... city of San Miguel del Tucuman, on the 9th of July, 1816, the ordinary sitting having terminated, the Congress of the United Provinces continued its former discussion on the great and august object of the independence of the countries which form them: constant and decided was the cry of the whole land for its solemn emancipation from the despotic power of the kings of Spain ; but the representatives, nevertheless, consecrated to so great a...
Page 247 - Fe, a popular movement took place, which had for its object a system of absolute equality; but it was put down by the bayonets of General Viamont, a blunt and honest soldier, but a great disciplinarian, who had long ruled the inhabitants rather despotically, and who, accustoraed to rigid military subordination, was anything but a forbearing sub-delegate from the metropolis.