Archivo: The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and (14579718280)

Descripción: Identifier: storyofgreatestn09elli (find matches) Title: The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands Year: 1913 (1910s) Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942 Subjects: World history Publisher: New York : Niglutsch Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ' Text Appearing After Image: South America—Argentine Rescues the Continent 1717 Unwisely enough he retaliated for the royalist savageries of Montaverdeby commanding that every Spaniard should be slain. Thus the war becameone of extermination on both sides. The royalists became as desperate as therepublicans had been. A few royalist leaders fled to the valley of the Orinocoand there met the laneros. These were the wild horsemen of the Orinocoplains, similar to those guacho riders of Argentine who had repelled the Span-iards from their border. The laiieros, believing that they must defeat the re-publicans or die, fought against them fiercely. So Venezuelans slew Venezue-lans in a ferocious guerilla warfare; and the republicans were again crushed,trampled horribly under foot, while Bolivar, the liberator, fled for a secondtime. By the year 1815 the revolution of South America seemed almost at anend. Venezuela had been twice reconquered by its own royalists withoutEuropean aid. Abascal, the stout old viceroy, held Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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