English Liberator

John Hemming

During Admiral Thomas Cochrane's demolition of imperial Spain's naval presence in the Pacific during the revolutionary wars for Spanish South America, all the raids were carried out by his marines under a young officer called William Miller. He came from nowhere - one of three sons of a baker in a small village in Kent, with no family influence, money, or even secondary education - but, following his service as a teenaged soldier in Wellington's Peninsular War, went on to have a meteoric rise in the armies that liberated the nations of Chile and Peru. Inspired by some South Americans' wish to leave Spain's colonial empire, Miller went not to join Simón Bolívar in the north (as did many demobilised European soldiers), but to the south, to José de San Martín in Argentina and Chile.

Author(s): Hemming, John
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 09/10/2025
Pagination: 360 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Haus Publishing
Published By: Haus Publishing
Book Classification: Biography: historical, political & military|History
Dimensions: 235x153
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ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781914979354