The history of Don Francisco de Miranda's attempt to effect a revolution in South America, in a series of letters.
signed Hardcover
1810 · Boston
by Biggs, James
Boston: Edward Oliver. Very Good. 1810. Hardcover. Biggs, James. The history of Don Francisco de Miranda's attempt to effect a revolution in South America, in a series of letters. Boston: Published by Edward Oliver, no. 70, State street. 2d. ed. 1810 xi, 312 p. By a gentleman who was an officer under that general ... To which are annexed, sketches of the life of Miranda, and geographical notices of Caraccas. Howes B-442. Miranda was a Venezuelan revolutionary who helped pave the way for his country's independence. He joined the Spanish army but fled to the U.S. in 1783, where he met leaders of the American Revolution and formed plans for the liberation of South America, which he envisioned ruled by an Incan emperor and a bicameral legislature. He launched an unsuccessful invasion of Venezuela in 1806 and returned at the request of Simón Bolívar to fight again in 1810. He assumed dictatorial powers in 1811 when independence was declared but succumbed to a Spanish counterattack and signed an armistice. Fellow revolutionaries, viewing his surrender as traitorous, thwarted his attempt to escape. He died in a Spanish prison cell. Nicely bound in half leather by Bayntun of Bath. . (Inventory #: 70455)