The History of Paraguay (V. 2)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. Buenos Aires declines an Alliance with Brazil. ? Seizure of Two Argentine War Steamers. ? Don Ramon Capdevila. ? Siege of Paisandu. ? Death of Leandro Gomez. ? Spanish American Ideas of National Honor and National Neutrality. ? Capitulation of Montevideo. ? The Oriental Legation in Paraguay. ? Correspondence between Lopez and Urquiza. ? Colonel Coriolano Marquez. ? Capture of Corrientes by General Robles. ? Provisional Government established.? Excitement in Buenos Aires. ? Speech of President Mitre. ? The Triple Alliance. ? The Campaign in Corrientes. ? Duplicity of Urquiza.? Colonel George Thompson. FROM the time of the seizure of the Marques de Olinda, in October, 1864, until the meeting of the Congress in the following March, scarcely any communication had been allowed between Paraguay and the country below, and after the Congress met it was strictly and jealously prohibited. The project of a sudden invasion of Corrientes had been discussed in the Congress; and as the member who proposed it, Don Andres Gill, was known to have intimate relations with Lopez, it was understood that this would be one of the first acts of hostility after war had been declared. It was not anticipated, however, by any one in Buenos Aires, nor in Corrientes, that Lopez, having commenced war with Brazil in a manner that would call forth all the resources of the Empire to attack' him, would also provoke the hostility of the Argentines. If there was to be war between the two countries, the true policy of the Argentine Republic was to remain at peace; and as the troops and munitions of war must nearly all be conveyed by way of the river, it was supposed that a rich harvest would be reaped by the merchants of Montevideo, Buenos Aires, and the ports upon the river, at the expense...

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