The General in His LabyrinthAfter his internationally acclaimed and bestselling Love in the Time of Cholera, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and author of the classic One Hundred Years of Solitude givesreat Simon Bolivar. Forced from power, the General embarks on a seven months' voyage down the Magdalena River, reflecting along the way on his life of campaigns and battles, love and loss. |
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Page 173
... battle . Nevado , the most famous , who had been with him from his earliest campaigns and had defeated without help a brigade of twenty bloodthirsty dogs belonging to the Spanish armies , had been killed by a lance during the first battle ...
... battle . Nevado , the most famous , who had been with him from his earliest campaigns and had defeated without help a brigade of twenty bloodthirsty dogs belonging to the Spanish armies , had been killed by a lance during the first battle ...
Page 189
... battle . He gave his nieces and nephews the sugar plantations he had in- herited , he gave his sisters the house in Caracas , and most of his lands he divided among the numerous slaves he freed before the abolition of slavery . He ...
... battle . He gave his nieces and nephews the sugar plantations he had in- herited , he gave his sisters the house in Caracas , and most of his lands he divided among the numerous slaves he freed before the abolition of slavery . He ...
Page 279
... battle will be to disarm the adversary , not to de- stroy him . " April 28 : hostilities break out again . June 27 : Bolívar defeats La Torre at Carabobo . Al- though it is not the final battle , at Carabobo he assures the independence ...
... battle will be to disarm the adversary , not to de- stroy him . " April 28 : hostilities break out again . June 27 : Bolívar defeats La Torre at Carabobo . Al- though it is not the final battle , at Carabobo he assures the independence ...
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