Excerpt from Letters on the United Provinces of South America: Addressed to the Hon. Henry Clay, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the U. StatesIT Is incumbent on every person who presents a statement of Important events to the public, to unfold the sources from which he derives his information. The writer therefore, In the first instance, with great pleasure acknowledges his Obligations to Mr. James A. Brush, a gentleman who accompanied general Mina from England to Mexico, and was finally appointed his commissary general.The journal of Mr. Brush was submitted to the Inspection of the writer, with the liberty of making such use of It as was thought proper, and from It he compiled the narrative of the military operations of general Mina, of the fidelity of which not the least doubt exists in his mind; indeed all the essen tial facts contained in the narrative were fully corroborated by information derived from various sources, while he was in Mexico, and by the testimony of the few surviving officers Of Mina' s expedition, whom he met with In Mexico and in the United States, and who were carefully consulted on the subject.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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