Identifier: britishexploitsi00koeb (find matches)
Title: British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Koebel, W. H. (William Henry), 1872-1923
Subjects: British -- South America South America -- History
Publisher: New York : The Century co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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id his best to thwart the British inthe Venezuelan service. His command, however, was notof long duration. He was succeeded by Padilla, a nativeof Rio de la Hacha, and a brave and practical seaman.Among those of the British who distinguished themselvesin this Venezuelan naval service were Chitty, Bingham,Noel, Cobham, and Russel. All these were in commandof warships of various kinds, but I have named them thuscurtly, being uncertain as to what precise rank they heldin a navy that was of necessity of a somewhat improvisedkind. Bolivars relations with the British troops in generalwere of the most cordial description throughout. TheLiberator was outspoken in his admiration for the legion,and at a banquet would frequently drink reverently tothe memory of the dead, more especially to that of Rooke,whom he had especially esteemed. Bolivars ardent and tropical temperament frequentlyled him into performances of a theatrical nature whichto the colder Northern mind might easily obscure his real
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%-A GENERAL BOLIVAR SOUTH AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 185 generosity and frank good fellowship. If there weretimes when Bolivar loved to pose before his troops in aglittering uniform, no one had a better right. Even thefainting emotion which he sometimes indulged in theface of rapturous public applause was a perfectly harm-less weakness. That he was an excellent comrade intimes of stress has been proved by many Englishmen inhis service. When Colonel Rooke, for instance, wasrobbed of his baggage on the plains of the Apure, it wasBolivar who gave him half his own wardrobe, scantyenough though it was on the march. A circumstance, too,that won the Liberator the respect of many soldiers wasthat he was a quite unusually good shot, and a fine swim-mer. When the circumstances warranted such peacefulexercises, moreover, he was noted for the excellence ofhis dancing. Another of his officers. Colonel Mackintosh, was em-phatic concerning Bolivars exertions on the march:*0n the expedition to New Granada

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