Spanish and Portuguese South America During the Colonial Period, Volumen2Trübner & Company, 1884 |
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Spanish and Portuguese South America During the Colonial Period, Volumen2 Robert Grant Watson Vista de fragmentos - 1971 |
Términos y frases comunes
Amazons amongst Araucanians arms arrived attack Bahia Belem Beresford Bogotá Brazil Brazilian Brigadier-General Buenos Ayres capital captaincy carried chief Chili colonies command defence despatched Dutch effect enemy English escape established expedition fire fleet force four French Freyre garrison Gomes Freyre governor Guaranís Holland honour hundred Indians inhabitants island Jesuits Joam Fernandes King labour land latter Lieutenant-General likewise Lima Liniers Lisbon Luiz Manoel Maranham and Pará measures ment Minas Geraes mines missionaries missions Monte Video Nassau natives negroes officers Olinda Pará Paraguay Paraiba party Paulistas Pernambuco persons Peru Plata Pombal population port Porto Calvo Portugal Portuguese possession prisoners proceeded province reached received Recife Reductions regiment Rio de Janeiro river sailed sent settlement ships slaves soon South America Spain Spaniards Spanish supplied surrender taken Tapuyas territory thousand tion took Toqui town trade treaty troops Uruguay vessels Viceroy Vidal Vieyra whilst Whitelocke
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Página 85 - CRY aloud, spare not, Lift up thy voice like a trumpet, And shew my people their transgression, And the house of Jacob their sins.
Página 310 - III. There shall be on both sides a mutual restitution of prisoners, including not only those which have been taken since the arrival of the troops under Lieutenant-General Whitelocke, but also all those his Britannic Majesty's subjects captured in South America since the commencement of the war. "IV. That for the promptest dispatch of the vessels and troops of his Britannic Majesty, there shall be no impediment thrown in the way of the supplies of provisions which may be requested for Montevideo.
Página 301 - ... in so strong a manner as to render them almost impossible to force. The streets were intersected by deep ditches, in the inside of which were planted cannon, pouring showers of grape on the advancing columns. In...
Página 296 - Ayres, did not make the military arrangements best calculated to ensure the success of his operations against the town, and that having known, previously to his attack upon the town of Buenos Ayres upon the...
Página 297 - Video, which had been committed to his charge, and which, at the period of the treaty and abandonment, was well and sufficiently garrisoned and provided against attack, and which was not, at such period, in a state of blockade or siege...
Página 311 - Video, which shall take place at the end of the two months fixed in the second article, the delivery will be made in the terms it was found, and with the artillery it had when it was taken.
Página 303 - Plata, intimating, at the same time, from the exasperated state of the populace, he could not answer for the safety of the prisoners, if I persisted in offensive measures.
Página 297 - Ayres ,and at a time when the troops under his command were in possession of posts on each flank of the town, and of the principal arsenal, with a communication open to the fleet, and having an effective force of about five thousand men, did enter into, and finally conclude a treaty with...
Página 296 - July, that the enemy meant to occupy the flat roofs of the houses, he did nevertheless, in the said attack, divide his forces into several brigades and parts, and ordered the whole to be unloaded, and no firing to...
Página 299 - SIR, I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of his Excellency the...