British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . ^-irta^)S!rU:airti. BRITISH EXPEDITION TO RIVER PLATE 145 and doubtless drowned his grief in double quantities ofthose strong waters of which, it appears, he was too fondfor his own good at the best of times. The details of this first expedition are simple, butsufficiently stirring. That a landing party of underseventeen hundred men, all told, should have attemptedthe conquest of a city of more than forty thousand in-habitants, surrounded, mo
British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . ^-irta^)S!rU:airti. BRITISH EXPEDITION TO RIVER PLATE 145 and doubtless drowned his grief in double quantities ofthose strong waters of which, it appears, he was too fondfor his own good at the best of times. The details of this first expedition are simple, butsufficiently stirring. That a landing party of underseventeen hundred men, all told, should have attemptedthe conquest of a city of more than forty thousand in-habitants, surrounded, moreover, by thousands of activehorsemen in the open country, is sufficiently surprisingin itself. That it succeeded is a tribute to the daring ofthe soldiers and the fine qualities of those typical Britishsailors who, as the force approached the town in a delugeof winter rain, harnessed themselves to the guns, drag-ging them through the morasses, and themselves swim-ming across the swollen streams that impeded their prog-ress from time to time. It was a gallant feat in the face of gallant enemies, for,had the Viceroy Sobremonte chosen to undertake a spir-ited defense
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