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EMANCIPATION OF SOUTH AMERICA
Y sinó, no serás nada.”
San Martin.
THE EMANCIPATION OF
SOUTH AMERICA
BEING A CONDENSED TRANSLATION
BY
WILLIAM PILLING
OF
THE HISTORY OF SAN MARTIN
BY
GENERAL DON BARTOLOMÉ MITRE
FIRST CONSTITUTIONAL PRESIDENT OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC
With Maps
LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, Ltd.
1893
TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.
THE title of this translation is the second title of the original“History of San Martin.” This transposition of title is an index to therelation which the translation bears to the original. This latter istruly a biography of San Martin, whose life could not be understoodunless very full account were given of the events in which he took soprominent a part, therefore the biography is also a history.
No man who plays a prominent part in the history of a revolution canescape becoming involved in disputes with his contemporaries, and inmany intricate questions which are of interest only to a very smallnumber of their successors. These disputes and these questions greatlyaffect the career of a man, but have small influence upon the history ofa Nation. Of such troubles San Martin had his full share, his biographerhas