The Royal Navy and the Peruvian-Chilean War 1879–1881

The Royal Navy and the Peruvian-Chilean War 1879–1881
Author: Gerard de Lisle
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2009-05-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783409231

This beautifully presented book captures the spirit of a little known war where the Royal Navy played a peripheral but crucial role. The power of the British Empire was at its height, thanks to the reach of the Royal Navy and officers from that service who often found themselves far from home and in positions of power way beyond their rank.

The War Between Peru and Chile

The War Between Peru and Chile
Author: Clements Robert Markham
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2024-02-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3385351006

Reprint of the original, first published in 1896.

Andean Tragedy

Andean Tragedy
Author: William F. Sater
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 080320759X

The year 1879 marked the beginning of one of the longest, bloodiest conflicts of nineteenth-century Latin America. The War of the Pacific pitted Peru and Bolivia against Chile in a struggle initiated over a festering border dispute. The conflict saw Chile's and Peru's armored warships vying for control of sea lanes and included one of the first examples of the use of naval torpedoes.

Report

Report
Author: New York Society Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1880
Genre:
ISBN:

Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth

Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth
Author: R.C. Bridges
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 131716296X

A special volume of essays to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Society, with a full listing and index of Hakluyt Society publications 1847-1995. Containing: P.E.H. Hair, ’The Hakluyt Society: from Past to Future’; R.C. Bridges, ’William Desborough Cooley and the Foundation of the Hakluyt Society’; Tony Campbell, ’R.H. Major and the British Museum’; R.J. Bingle, ’Henry Yule: India and Cathay’; Ann Savours, ’Clements Markham: longest serving Officer, most prolific Editor’; C.F. Beckingham, ’William Foster and the Records of the India Office’; D.B. Quinn, ’R.A. Skelton of the Map Room’; Michael Strachan, ’Esmond S. de Beer: Scholar and Benefactor’; and R.C. Bridges and P.E.H. Hair, ’The Hakluyt Society and World History’.