BY

AN ESTANCIERO

BUENOS AIRES
MITCHELL'S BOOK STORE
530 CANGALLO 578		 |LONDON
T. WERNER LAURIE
CLIFFORD'S INN
1910

Al Gran Pueblo Argentino ¡Salud!

CONTENTS
BOOK I
THE BABYHOOD OF A GREAT NATION
CHAP.PAGE
[Prologue]3
I. [Father and Son]5
II. [How Don Gregorio Lopez sought an Answer to the Question of the Day]11
III. [Concerning the danger of Friendship with an Enemy]20
IV. [Showing how a Patriot may also be a Traitor]29
V. [Perdriel]36
VI. [In which it appears that a lesson may be well taught and yet not learned]47
VII. [The 12th August, 1806]53
BOOK II
THE PROWESS OF A YOUNG GIANT
[Prologue]61
I. [ At the Quinta de Ponce]63
II. [ The Yeomanry of Buenos Aires]71
III. [ Arming the Slaves]78
IV. [ Standing alone]85
V. [ An Evening in the month of June]93
VI. [ The Landing of the English]100
VII. [ The Baptism of Fire]110
VIII. [ Los Corrales de La Miserere]117
IX. [ The Night of Sorrow]121
X. [ The Council of War]131
XI. [ The Pathways of Death]141
XII. [The Afternoon of the 5th July]152
XIII. [ The Capitulation of the 6th July]158
[Epilogue to Books I. and II.: The Monuments and the Rewards of Victory]162
[Appendix: The Court Martial]163
BOOK III
THE UNKNOWN FUTURE
[Prologue]167
I. [At the Quinta de Don Alfonso]169
II. [The Episode of the fair Mauricia]175
III. [Watch and Wait]187
IV. [The raising of the Veil]193
V. [To our Friends the English!]202
BOOK IV
THE DAWN OF FREEDOM
PART I.--THE BRIGHTENING OF THE EASTERN SKY
[Prologue] 213
I. [Magdalen]215
II. [How Don Gregorio Lopez a second time sought an Answer to the Question of the Day]223
III. [Several ways of looking at one Question]227
IV. [How the Spaniards also proposed to themselves a Question, and how Don Carlos Evaña prepared an Answer] 234
V. [How the Viceroy took Counsel with Don Roderigo] 242
VI. [The Eve of a great Event] 249
VII. [The 1st January, 1809]258
VIII. [Evaña's Dream] 267
IX. [The Day after] 273
X. [America for the Americans] 279
BOOK V
THE DAWN OF FREEDOM
PART II.--THE MISTS OF THE EARLY MORN
[Prologue]287
I. [The two Viceroys]289
II. [The Tertulia at the House of my lady Josefina] 298
III. [La Junta de los Comandantes] 307
IV. [How Don Carlos Evaña attacked the Wild-duck, and routed them with great slaughter]313
V. [How the Viceroy placed a sword in the hands of the enemies of Spain] 323
VI. [¡Caducó la España!] 331
BOOK VI
LIBERTY
[Prologue]347
I. [How the last Tie was broken]349
II. [How Don Gregorio Lopez for the third time sought an Answer to the Question of the Day]356
III. [The Opening of the month of May]360
IV. [Dias de la Patria]367
V. [The 25th May, 1810]375
VI. [Lions in the Path]383
VII. [The first Fight in the War of Independence]388
VIII. [How General Liniers lost an important Ally]397
IX. [La Cabeza del Tigre]401
X. [Once more in the Porch together]408
GENERAL EPILOGUE
I. [The Viceroyalty of Buenos Aires]419
II. [The Year 1810] 420
III. [Paraguay] 422
IV. [The Banda Oriental] 422
V. [The Army of Upper Peru] 424
VI. [The Sovereign People] 427
VII. [The Congress of Tucuman] 433
VIII. [Independence]434