The Emancipation of South America

CHAPTER I.

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.

THE ARGUMENT OF THE BOOK.

Three great names stand forth conspicuous in the annals of America, those of WASHINGTON, BOLÍVAR, SAN MARTIN. Of Washington, the great leader of the Democracy of the North; of Bolívar and of San Martin, who were the emancipators of the southern half of the continent. The story of the life-work of the latter of...