British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . inhis locker, he continued to blaze away marline-spikes,nails, and bits of iron, until he had cleared his vessel ofthe last hope of anything in the way of a missile! Then,under a heavy fire, he made for the shore in a boat. A search party of marines from the Congreso followedhim, and came upon him concealed in a house. On thisthe intrepid Scotsman knocked down the officer of marinesand two of the privates, and escaped at the expense of asever
British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . inhis locker, he continued to blaze away marline-spikes,nails, and bits of iron, until he had cleared his vessel ofthe last hope of anything in the way of a missile! Then,under a heavy fire, he made for the shore in a boat. A search party of marines from the Congreso followedhim, and came upon him concealed in a house. On thisthe intrepid Scotsman knocked down the officer of marinesand two of the privates, and escaped at the expense of asevere bayonet wound. After this meteoric outburst ofdeeds his personality fades away into the unknown. Presumably some day or other the status of many ofthe lesser lights among the historical personages of SouthAmerica will become fixed. Decidedly the process willbe anything but a simple one in view of the extraordinar-ily sharp divergences that are revealed in the contem-porary opinions. Admiral Brown affords one of the numerous instancesof this, even though his personality is too important tobe included among those lesser lights I have referred SOUTH AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 229 The leading figure among the sailors of the young Argen-tine navy, he is spoken of in terms of unstinted admira-tion not only by the Argentine and Chilean chroniclersof the period, but also by all the British who happenedto be residing at the time in the neighborhood of theriver Plate. Yet at this same period Brown is referred to by theEev. R. Walsh, a most enlightened and liberal-mindedclergyman resident in Brazil, in a totally different man-ner. Walsh terms Brown a pirate, and alludes to himthus in no abusive sense, but with the calm detachmentproper to an uncontrovertible fact! William Brown, who became an admiral in the Argen-tine service, adds one more to the long list of Irishmenwho fought in the patriot cause. Born in county Mayo in1777, he went to sea in his early boyhood, and after manystrenuou
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