. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. nsouthward. His ablest fighting general, Sucre, was sent soon after the victoryof Carabobo to aid the people of Ecuador. Here after a hard strugg
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. nsouthward. His ablest fighting general, Sucre, was sent soon after the victoryof Carabobo to aid the people of Ecuador. Here after a hard struggle Sucrewon a decisive battle at Pichincha (1822). Then he and Bolivar, havingfreed Ecuador, proclaimed it also a part of their united republic of next move was to be an advance into Peru. But in Peru, as we haveseen, San Martin had already driven the Spanish forces back into the moun-tains. So San Martin now came north and visited Boli\ar in Ecuador toconfer with him about driving the Spaniards from their last hold in SouthAmerica, the mountains of Peru and Bolivia. The meeting of these two liberators of America has been often were indeed in most striking contrast. San Martin was a man simplein manner and in dress, grave and quiet, making few friends and seeking nooutside interests, wholly devoted to the mighty task he had assumed of freeingSouth America. For himself he sought nothing; he had refused the highest. VUELVAN CARA! (The About Face ! With Which Paez and His Wild Riders Turned theTide for Freedom in Venezuela; From a fainting by the Venezuelan artist, Arturo Michelina HAVING conquered Chile, San Martin carried the warnorthward into Peru. Meanwhile, the Venezuelanshad yet again, for the third time, roused in revolt. Theywere driven to this by the ferocious excesses of the victoriousroyalists. Paez, a wild cowboy or hunter of the Orinoco Riverplains, led his comrade hunters into this revolt. He couldneither read nor write; but he proved su
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