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Title: South America; a popular illustrated history of the struggle for liberty in the Andean republics and Cuba
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905
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Publisher: New York, Doubleday & McClure co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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isworthy to be written in letters of gold: The presenceof a fortunate general in the country which he has con-quered is detrimental to the state. I have achieved theindependence of Peru. I cease to be a public man! 138 SOUTH AMERICA He to whom had been offered ten thousand ounces ofgold now took some three thousand dollars, crossed theAndes, and with his daughter Mercedes went to Europe,and lived there in poverty and neglect for nearly thirtyyears. When the republics that he had liberated at last recalledhis true greatness, they brought his body to Argentina,and crpwned the dead hero. The tomb of San Martinforms a part of the cathedral of Buenos Ayres, and is oneof the most beautiful in the western world. Truly says General Mitre: History records not in herpages an act of self-abnegation executed with more con-scientiousness and greater modesty. I desire that my heart shall rest in Buenos Ayres,said San Martin. His heart is forever embalmed in thehearts of the people of Buenos Ayres.
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MAUSOLEUM OF SAN MARTIN, IN BUENOS AYRES. CHAPTER XIII AYACUCHO, THE DECISIVE BATTLE OF SOUTH AMER-ICA—ITS DRAMATIC AND THRILLING EVENTS—BO-LIVIA—THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRANCE OF BOLIVARINTO POTOSI THE decisive battle of South American liberty wasthat of Ayacucho. The Army of the North foundits decisive fields at Boyaca and Carabobo; the Army ofthe South at Maypo. The united and central army ofUpper Peru, commanded by General Sucre, completed atAyacucho the work of Bolivar in the north and of SanMartin in the south. The royalist forces in this battlewere led by the viceroy of Peru, La Serna. He wasoverthrown. With his defeat the Spanish power in SouthAmerica was brought to an end. The events leading up to this decisive victory areamong the most dramatic and thrilling in history. In1823 General Bolivar, leaving the presidency of the newlyfounded Republic of Colombia to Vice-President Santander,at Bogota, embarked at Guayaquil for Peru. His purposewas to complete the work of South Americ

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