[2] See [Appendix I.]
[3] Miranda served with great distinction in the campaigns of Valmy and Jemappes, and commanded the right wing of the Republican army at the disastrous affair of Neerwinden. He was afterwards imprisoned by the Directory on suspicion of being implicated in the defection of Dumouriez, whose treachery he had denounced, but escaped and fled to England.—Tr.
[4] A native regiment which had taken a prominent part in the repulse of the English.—Tr.
[5] Men of the plains, from llano = a plain.
[6] Countrymen.
[7] See [Appendix II.]
[8] A term of opprobrium given at that time to Spaniards.—Tr.
[9] A quotation from “Old Mortales!” the Argentine national hymn.
[10] It appears that Condarco, when in London, purchased the ship Cumberland, mounting sixty guns, for 160,000 dols., giving an order for that amount on the Government of Chile, and paying as a deposit 25,000 dols., which sum, being returned to him on payment of his draft, he placed in the hands of someone in whom he had confidence, on account of O’Higgins and San Martin. His confidence was misplaced, his English friend lost the money in gambling on the Stock Exchange, and San Martin found himself penniless when he landed in England in 1824.—Tr.
[11] This word Maipó is commonly spelt in Buenos Ayres Maipú, which is the Pehuenche way of pronouncing it.