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Just been looking at Osprey's website and have found out they are about to publish a book on Bolivar's British Volunteers. I've been fascinated by the Napoleonic era for some time now and have lived and travelled in South America extensively, but never knew about this?

Did any of you know that these guys existed? Here's a bit of blurb about the book and a link to the website.

1815, just after the battle of Waterloo, over 6,000 British volunteers sailed across the Atlantic to aid Simon Bolivar in his liberation of Gran Columbia from her Spanish oppressors. The expeditions were plagued with disaster from the start. Those who reached the New World faced disease, wild animals, mutiny and desertion. Conditions on campaign were appalling, massacres were commonplace, rations crude, pay infrequent and supplies insufficient. Nevertheless, those who endured made key contributions to Bolivar's success.

This book tells the story of the British volunteers from the raising of the regiments to their defiant stand at the battle of Carabobo. It is the first narrative on the subject for over eighty years.


http://www.ospreypublishing.com/blog...itish_bolivar/