...William Sater Vida de Arturo Prat . By Rodrigo Fuenzalida B . 2d ed. rev. Santiago , 1976 . Editorial Andrés Bello . Map. Illustrations. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography . Pp. 280 . Paper. Copyright 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Rodrigo Fuenzalida’s second edition...

...Donald E. Worcester At Iquique the Peruvian ironclad Huáscar hammered the unarmored Esmeralda for three hours then rammed her. When the Huáscar struck Prat gave the order to board, then leaped onto the enemy’s deck and to his death accompanied only by a sergeant. When the Huáscar struck...

... Venezuela . By Coll y Prat Narciso . Introduction by Vila Manuel Pérez . Caracas , 1960 . Academia Nacional de la Historia . Sesquicentenario de la Independencia. No. XXIII . Pp. 403 . Proceso político . By Isnardi Francisco . Caracas , 1960 . Academia Nacional de Historia...

.... No person symbolized this dilemma better than General Carlos Prats. Haslam argues that Prats, in resigning from Allende’s cabinet, chose the military (and thus the nation) over the government and the state, a decision that had tragic consequences. Another strength of the book is the way Haslam...

... selfish motivations. Bawden rightly outlines the heterogeneity of the Chilean soldiers before the coup. Yet he cannot fully explain why the constitutional traditions of the Chilean military permitted both the law-abiding general Carlos Prats and his successor, Augusto Pinochet. It is not always clear why...

..., don José Prat se formó en Colombia. Llegó entre un grupo selecto de exilados cuando la Guerra Civil Española, y calladamente penetró en los secretos e intimidades del ser americano. Pudo, como los desterrados de entonces, comprender mejor que nadie, la razón del ser americano. Muchas veces, por...

...Alexander Marchant Copyright 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 Notas históricas sobre as missões carmelitanas no extremo norte do Brasil (seculos XVII eXVIII) . By Prat Fr. André . ( Recife : Privately printed , 1941 . Pp. 328 . Maps, illus.) ...

... (1970-73). This solid treatment rests on thorough research in abundant primary as well as secondary sources. The bibliography is excellent, though strangely omitting some basic books by Theodore Moran, Brian Smith, and Barbara Stallings and relying on the bogus memoirs of General Carlos Prats...

... are called monogamous (p. 80), and the Guaraní, rather than the Charrúas, are charged with the death of Juan Díaz de Solís (p. 81). On page 371 an archbishop of Charcas is reported as serving from 1630-34, but is said to have died in 1630 on page 446. Archbishop Narciso Coll y Prat of Venezuela is mistakenly...

.... The contrast with today’s advanced technology and diminished Martíal spirit is striking. El Combate homérico refers of course to the naval battles off Iquique on May 21, 1879 which gave Chile one of her greatest heroes, Arturo Prat. The author was a journalist who was not an eyewitness of the events...

... Frei won with 56 percent of the vote to Allende’s 39 percent; it mistakes the name of the navy member of the junta and calls the air force member “Marshall” Leigh; the late August 1973 resignation of General Carlos Prats is placed several months before the coup; and the myth is repeated that the coup...

... constituted a part of the reality upon which it had to act.” In this sense, Bitar’s book is part of the diverse literature of remembrances and reassessments of the Allende years, including such books as the Memorias of General Prats or Carlos Altamirano’s Dialéctica de una derrota . Unlike many...

... awry, untrustworthy politicians, men dying of thirst in the desert — it is all here. The cast of characters is exceptionally interesting: the petulant and inept Chilean admiral Juan Williams Rob-ledo; his heroic countryman and naval captain Arturo Prat, for whom 162 towns and hamlets were eventually...

... assistance from the ratings. That same evening, the men of the Condell , the Chacabuco , and the Prat heard a rumor that the submarines, accompanied by the Araucano , would be ordered north to sink the rebel ships. A group of armed sailors sought to stop this sortie by seizing the Araucano...

..., and disaffected Unionists staged a series of pronunciamientos , headed by General Juan Prim y Prats, that finally succeeded in 1868. Among the planks of the new regime was a significant tariff reduction; and the provisional government immediately enacted important measures to this effect. Drawing...