British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . LANDING STAGK, RIO UE JANIiIKO (liARLY XIX CENTURY). PUBLIC GARDENS, RIO DE JANEIRO (1835) J THE BRITISH IN BRAZIL 333 When the mutiny broke out, he it^was who was thefirst set on by the German soldiers. As he rushed tomake his escape over the wall of the barracks, he wascaught and pulled down; he was then stabbed by thebayonets of the men and finally crushed to death by largestones, thrown on him by the enraged men. Two otheroflBcers who att
British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . LANDING STAGK, RIO UE JANIiIKO (liARLY XIX CENTURY). PUBLIC GARDENS, RIO DE JANEIRO (1835) J THE BRITISH IN BRAZIL 333 When the mutiny broke out, he it^was who was thefirst set on by the German soldiers. As he rushed tomake his escape over the wall of the barracks, he wascaught and pulled down; he was then stabbed by thebayonets of the men and finally crushed to death by largestones, thrown on him by the enraged men. Two otheroflBcers who attempted to take his part, were badly hurt. Rio de Janeiro was now thoroughly alarmed. TheBrazilian troops were ordered under arms, and the min-ister of war gave instructions to the commandant, theConde de Rio Pardo, *to destroy every man: to give noquarter, but to exterminate the strangers—a feat moreeasily ordered than done, now that the blood of the Irishwas up. In the meanwhile the blacks and the rabble ofthe city were given permission to take up arms and towork their will upon the mutineers. That such a meas-ure as this should have been put into effect shows thedepth of the hysterical terror to
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