[f Mil H Bro 1002 THE ARMIES OF BOLIVAR AND SAN MARTIN Tr, eo TERRY HOOKER RON POULTEREDITOR: MARTIN WINDROW, THE ARMIES OF BOLIVAR AND SAN MARTIN Text by T. HOOKER AND R. POULTER Colour plates by R. POULTER g/ 217830 KatalogPublished in 1991 by Osprey Publishing Ld 59 Grosvenor Street, London W1X 9DA, ‘© Copyright 1991 Osprey Publishing Ltd All rights reserved. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or revie permitted under the Copyright Designs and Patents Aet, 1988, no part ofthis publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or teansmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrical, chemical, mechanical, optical, photocopying, recording or ‘otherwise, without the prior permission ofthe copyright ‘owner. Enquiries should be addressed to the Publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Hooker, T. ‘The armies of Bolivar and San Martin, —(Man-at- sems series, 232) 1. South American armies, history LTitle UL, Poulter, R. IIL. Series 08 almset in Great Britain Printed through Bookbuilders Ld, Hong Kong For a catalogue ofall books published by Osprey Military please write to ‘The Marketing Manager, Consumer Catalogue Department, Osprey Publishing Ltd, Michelin House, 81 Fulham Road, London SW3 6RB Dedication ‘To both our wives, Roslyn and Doriam Acknowledgements Both of us wish to thank those who have helped us with our researches over many years, as well as those who have been of direct assistance during the preparation of this book; these former are Mr. J. Hefter, and Mr. R, Belmont-Maitland of “Tra Among the latter we should mention Snr. Jos Balaguer, Snr. C. Fernandez, Mr. C, A. Norman, Mr René Chartrand, Snr. M. Dini Bruno, Snr. C. Perez Jurado, Col. A. Marquez Allison, HE The Spanish Ambassador to Honduras Don Julio Albi, Snr. J. M. Ricardes; the Colombian Embassy, London; staffat the British Embassy, Caracas, and Snr. Alvaro Montana for photographs taken in Bogota; the staff at Hull Central Library (Reference Section) who have aided TDH’s quest for foreign sources over the years; and Doriam Poulter for invaluable translations and frequent help. Lastly, thanks to Martin Windrow, whom RP has pestered with this subject every time they met over a number of years. If any reader has any enquiries on South American military history we will be happy to try to help: T. D. Hooker, 27 Hallgate, Cottingham, North Humberside HUr6 4DN; R. Poulter, 36 Warwick Avenue, South Harrow, Midd. HA2 8RD. tion’. Photograph credits; note that abbreviations appear in captions: Museo Nacional, Bogota, Colombia; Bibliotheque de Musée de Armée, Paris; Museo Historico Nacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Banco Central de Reserva del Peru, Lima, Peru; Palacio Federal, Caracas, Venezuela; Quinta de Bolivar, Bogota, Colombia; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina. TI coi of in Fé (c« pr thi id oO