The Emancipation of South America

by Bartolomé Mitre

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This book will not be the historical monument which posterity will some day consecrate to the immortal memory of San Martin, but those who do at some future date erect it, will herein find abundant materials, stones finished or but roughly cut, with which solidly to lay out the foundations.

Bartolomé Mitre.

Buenos Ayres, 1887.

Here follows, on 25 pages, a list of unpublished manuscripts consulted in the compilation of this work, which manuscripts will be deposited in the National Library of Buenos Ayres.

William Pilling.

THE EMANCIPATION OF SOUTH AMERICA.

CHAPTER I.
HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.

The Argument of the Book.