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Biographical reviews of naval officers; 1500-1930

Book Review by: Sherezade    

Original Author: Alicia Castañeda Martos
The personages who left track in occurring of the marine and naval history of the Peru, from which they came with Pizarro
in 1530, as it is the case of the real lieutenant Diego de Agüero and Sandoval; also those that comprised of the virreinal square in charge of the monitoring and safeguard of the Peruvian coasts, and that at some moment they had to face the English and Dutch privateering fleets, like Juan de Albendín, captain of patache real "San jOse", that when seeing itself surrounded by urcas Dutch, ordered scuttle their ship and succumbed in front of with her Blue Hill, appear all of them in meticulous semblanzas arranged in alphabetical order in this biographical dictionary that enriches the Peruvian naval bibliography. The book registers, how no, to the Flagship Doña Isabel Barreto de Castro, that to the death of its husband, I castrate of Mendaña, assumed the control of the marine expedition discoverer who divided for the Australian Continent year 1595. They also appear the foreign sailors who collaborated in develops emancipadora, and those that, after obtained independence continued to the service of Peru, like Guise and Bouchard; And the officials of the naval missions French and American, that at the beginning of century XX gave new impuilso to the maeina military of the postwar period with Chile. The names, facts and contributions of the Peruvian sailors are rescued who throughout the republican life went giving life to the naval institution and drawing up the noble tradition that characterizes it. There they appear also the sailors who conquered the amazonian forest, ofrendando even their lives, like the alfereces Távara and West who were devoured by the natives. And those that defended the mother country in the wars against Spain and Chile, in 1866 and 1879. And the students, like Camilo Cheek, Carrasco and Stiglich, cartographers, geographers and navigators. The information is guaranteed by the authority of the source, the Historical File of Navy, that the author knows very well then in her moment had to her position the organization of the same one. The documentation corresponds to the Separate military command of Navy, the personal records and fojas on watch.
Published: September 28, 2007
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