Author | Slatta, Richard W., 1947- |
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Title | Simโon Bolโivar's quest for glory [electronic resource] / Richard W. Slatta and Jane Lucas De Grummond |
Imprint | College Station [Tex.] : Texas A & M University Press, c2003 |
Edition | 1st ed |
Connect to | http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=102418 |
Descript | xii, 344 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm |
The education of a liberator -- Introduction : Bolโivar and Washington -- A young man seeks his destiny, 1783-1806 -- Stirrings of independence, 1807-10 -- Struggling for independence -- Disasters for the foolish Fatherland, 1811-12 -- Victories from Mompox to Araure, 1812-13 -- Spain's reconquest of its colonies -- Boves and royalist resurgence, 1814-15 -- Regrouping in Jamaica, 1815-16 -- From optimism at Aux Cayes to disaster at Ocumare, 1816 -- Frustration from Jacmel to Guayana, 1816-17 --