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Admiral Allies amongst Argentine Argentine Confederation arms army Asuncion attack August Banda Oriental bank batteries Brazil Brazilian brick Buenos Aires called camp campaign Captain cattle cavalry civil Colonel command corps Corrientes Curupaity declared enemy English feet fighting Flores foreigners four Francia French front Gaucho Government Gran Chaco ground Guarani Guardia guayan guns half horses Humaitá Indian ironclads Jesuit José land latter leagues Loma Loma Valentina Madame Lynch March Marshal Caxias Marshal-President Lopez maté Messrs miles Minister Monte Vidéo mouth officers once Pampas Paraguay river Paraguayan Paraná Paraná River passed Paysandú Plata present President Lopez province railway Republic Rio de Janeiro Rosas Rozario ships shot shows side soldier Spanish squadron square steamer stream streets Tacuari tall Tebicuary Timbó town trees Urquiza Uruguay Uruguay River Uruguayana usual Villa Rica whilst
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Page viii - seldom has aught been more impressive to the gaze of the world than this tragedy, this unflinching struggle maintained for so long a period against overwhelming odds'.18 On 14 April 1870, the Manchester Guardian assessed the war as making 'a profounder impression on the minds of competent observers' than anything else taking place at that time.
Page 93 - Dares stretch her wing o'er this enormous mass Of rushing water ; scarce she dares attempt The sea-like Plata ; to whose dread expanse, Continuous depth, and wondrous length of course, Our floods are rills.
Page 71 - But, continues Burton, who wrote prior to Lopez' death, "there is no need for the President to act soldier; L'etat c'est lui. If he falls the cause of Paraguay — and she has a cause — is sheer lost; whilst he lives she has hope.
Page 233 - When the journal was drawn up, it was my intention to have divided the map of the Mississippi river from the mouth of the Ohio, to the Gulf of Mexico...
Page xi - impartially viewed, is no less than the doom of a race, which is to be relieved from a selfchosen tyranny by becoming chair-a-canon by the process of annihilation. It is the Nemesis of Faith — the death-throe of a policy bequeathed by Jesuitism to South America ; it shows the flood of time surging over a relic of Old World semi-barbarism — a palaeozoic humanity.
Page 52 - Dictator was a reproduction in a somewhat sterner mould of the Jesuit Reduction system, and it throve because the popular mind was prepared for it.
Page xiii - President, who though separated by half a world from our world, must ever command a sufficiency of interest ; the conspiracy that has been so fiercely asserted and denied, the new Reign of Terror, called by some the Reign of Rigour...
Page viii - ... a stubbornness of purpose, a savage valour, and an enduring desperation rare in the annals of mankind.
Page xii - Enfield, of honey-combed carronades, long and short against Whitworths and Lahittes, of punts and canoes against...
Page 127 - Historia secreta de la misión del ciudadano norteamericano Charles A. Washburn, cerca del gobierno de la República del Paraguay, por el ciudadano americano, traductor titular (in partibus) de la misión.