In the 1860s the Republic of Paraguay, under its dictator, Francisco Solano López, and his Irish consort, Eliza Lynch, became engaged in a desperate seven-years war with its neighbours. The memoirs of a small group of British doctors and engineers provide the basis for this account of the struggle.
C.R. Boxer recalls “the time of the Flemings” (Tempo dos Flamengos), as the period of the Dutch occupation of Pernambuco province in Brazil used to be called.
Charles Dimont traces the establishment and development of Britain's South American dependency.
Derek Severn recounts how, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a priest from Bohemia served the Society of Jesus in the more remote parts of Brazil and Peru.
Jan Read introduces some volunteers on land and at sea in the liberation of the Spanish Colonies.
Launched for the Peruvian navy in 1865, the Huascar was captured by Chile in the war of 1879. David Woodward analyses the large part it has played in Chilean history.
Roger Howell discovers that the Spaniards who conquered the Americas had little real understanding of the civilizations that they overthrew.
George Pendle finds that the authoress of Little Arthur's History of England was also an inquisitive and adventurous traveller.
Despite recent difficulties, Britain and Argentina have endured a long and fruitful relationship, as Paul Lay explains.
For all its faults C.E Hamshere’s account of Francis Drake’s 16th-century circumnavigation, published in History Today in 1967, applies a historical imagination lacking in more recent studies, argues Hugh Bicheno.
