The Expedition of Orsua; And the Crimes of Aguirre - Softcover

Southey, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1151501026 ISBN 13: 9781151501028

Publisher: General Books LLC, 2012

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1821. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAP. VI. PREPARATIONS OP THE GOVERNOR OF VENEZUELA AGUIRRE'S LETTER TO THE KING--DESERTION OF, HIS MEN HIS DEATH. Pablo Coixado was in the city of Tocuyo when the inhabitants of Burburata advised him of Aguirre's landing. He sent immedi'ately to Merida for assistance, not only from Pedro Bravo de Molina, who had the command there, but also to Diego Garcia de Paredes (a man of some celebrity among the conquerors), who, because of some displeasure which had arisen between him and the Governor, had retired thither in disgust. Collado entreated him to lay aside all private resentments in this emergency, and come to his aid, promising him full satisfaction as to the matter in dispute. Paredes answered this appeal as became a brave and loyal Spaniard: he set off with fourteen companions to Truxillo, a settlement founded by himself, there to collect farther help. The Captain Pedro Bravo presently followed him-with flve-and-twenty men, in disobedience of his orders from the Royal Audience: it neither accorded with his duty nor his honour, he thought, to obey those, instructions, and remain inactive, now that the force of the rebel was ascertained, and when prompt measures against him might obtain a decisive success. Acting, therefore, upon his own responsibility on this point, he was not able to dispatch intelligence to Santa Fe, as he had been instructed, because an escort would have been necessary for the messenger as far as the town of St. Christoval, and men could not be spared for it, without leaving Merida too much exposed to the Indians. Collado, meantime, who was an invalid himself, and incapable of taking the field, appointed Gutierre de la Pena to the command of the force which he could collect at Tocuyo. Some intelligence of these movements, partly true and ...

Edition details

• Publisher: General Books LLC
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1151501026
• ISBN 13: 9781151501028
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 34