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Conquer or Die!: Wellington's Veterans and the Liberation of the New World
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Conquer or Die!: Wellington's Veterans and the Liberation of the New World Hardback - 2010

by Ben Hughes

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In 1815, just after the battle of Waterloo, over 6,000 British volunteers sailed across the Atlantic to aid Simon Bolivar in his liberation of Gran Columbia from her Spanish oppressors. The expeditions were plagued with disaster from the start, when one ship sank shortly after leaving Portsmouth with the loss of almost 200 lives. Those who reached the New World faced disease, wild animals, mutiny and desertion. Conditions on campaign were appalling, massacres were commonplace, rations crude, pay infrequent and supplies insufficient. Nevertheless, those who endured made key contributions to Bolivar's success.

This book tells the fast-paced and entertaining story of the British volunteers from the raising of the regiments in Britain to the perils of campaigning to their defiant stand at the battle of Carabobo. Drawing on the volunteers' memoirs, letters and journals, supported by unpublished documents and newspaper reports, Conquer or Die! is the result of research across two continents. It is the first narrative on the subject for over eighty years.

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  • Title Conquer or Die!: Wellington's Veterans and the Liberation of the New World
  • Author Ben Hughes
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 376
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Osprey Publishing (UK), Botley
  • Publication date 2010-08-24
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781849081832 / 1849081832
  • Weight 1.69 lbs (0.77 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.32 x 6.38 x 1.42 in (23.67 x 16.21 x 3.61 cm)
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects South America - History, Military - 19th, South America - History - Wars of
  • Dewey Decimal Code 980.02

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"This is a blood-and-thunder tale... The numerous battle descriptions are extremely detailed, vivid, suspenseful and in some cases, horrifying. The demands upon men, animals and logistics of such chaotic warfare were extreme. Readers will wonder at the availability of such comprehensive source material. Who took notes, who wrote the dispatches in such fast-moving action in such primitive conditions?" - David C. Acheson, The Washington Times

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The book is a chronicle of hardship, deadly sea voyages, disease, wild animals, mutiny, brutal primitive warfare, frequent betrayal and desertion... Hughes has shed light on a little-known epic, on which no major non-fiction book has focused in almost a century." - Stephen Frater, Hearld Tribune

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Historian Ben Hughes’s detailed explications, with notes, bibliography and index, add rigor to his portraits of colorful characters such as the Scots merchant James Hamilton who strode about the jungle in full highland dress." - Zara Raab, Sacramento Book Review

About the author

Ben Hughes is an ESOL and EFL Lecturer. After graduating from Leeds University in 1997, he spent several years teaching and traveling throughout South America. His passion for the continent and a lifelong interest in the Napoleonic era led him to this project. He now lives in North London with his Colombian wife.

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