The Emancipation of South America

LibriVox recording of The Emancipation of South America by Bartolomé Mitre. (Translated by William Pilling.) Read in English by Piotr Nater. THREE great names stand forth conspicuous in the annals of America, those of Washington, Bolívar, San Martin. Of Washington, the great leader of the Democracy of the North; of Bolívar and of San Martin, who were the emancipators of the southern half of the continent. The story of the life-work of the latter of these two is the Argument of this book. The scene of action passes on a vast theatre, a territory extending for more than fifty degrees of latitude