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PONCE DE LEON

NOTE.--This book was first published in 1878, and has long been
out of print. The work has been recognized as the best and most
accurate description yet written of the British Invasion, and
the rise of the Argentine Republic.


PONCE DE LEON

The Rise of the Argentine Republic

by

AN ESTANCIERO


    BUENOS AIRES                 LONDON
MITCHELL'S BOOK STORE       T. WERNER LAURIE
  530 CANGALLO 578           CLIFFORD'S INN
                      1910


   Al Gran Pueblo Argentino iSalud!




CONTENTS

                                BOOK I

                   THE BABYHOOD OF A GREAT NATION

    CHAP.                                                           PAGE
         Prologue                                                     3
      I. Father and Son                                               5
     II. How Don Gregorio Lopez sought an Answer to the
         Question of the Day                                         11
    III. Concerning the danger of Friendship with an Enemy           20
     IV. Showing how a Patriot may also be a Traitor                 29
      V. Perdriel                                                    36
     VI. In which it appears that a lesson may be well taught
         and yet not learned                                         47
    VII. The 12th August, 1806                                       53


                                BOOK II

                     THE PROWESS OF A YOUNG GIANT

        