ENGLISH LIBERATOR: William Miller and the Independence of Spanish South America

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An expansive biography of William Miller, a soldier well-recognized and loved not just in modern Peru but across the swath of nations liberated from Spanish rule during the nineteenth century. Spans Miller's time as a teenage soldier in Wellington's Peninsular War, his contribution to the liberation of the new nations Chile and Peru, and his years in diplomacy thereafter. Drawing on written accounts by many of Miller's contemporaries in addition to a wealth of modern research, the anti-imperialist, anti-slavery soldier was highly regarded by all the leaders of independence and popular with ordinary people and peasant farmers due to his own humble origins. Contains 26 halftones.