In Chile she met personally Bernardo O'Higgins
, the first president of the new republic just struggling free of Spanish rule. Another friend from this period was the brilliant, maverick Lord Cochrane
(later Earl of...
Literary responses
Maria Callcott
The review in the Quarterly used the portentous sub-heading Mrs. Graham's inaccuracy proved to introduce the detection of a numerical error in the figure she gave for the population of Valparaiso.
Callcott, Maria. “Introduction”. The Captain’s Wife, edited by Elizabeth Mavor, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993, p. xi - xiv.
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In fact...
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28 July 1821: Peru declared its independence from Spain,...
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28 July 1821
Peru declared its independence from Spain, but Simon Bolivar
, first president of the new republic, was not secure in his position for a good while longer.
“Library of Congress Country Studies”. Country Studies/Area Handbook Series, 2003.