Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 310
aguay, and Uruguay. Just one hun-dred years ago Buenos Airess population hadreached fifty thousand, which seems quite re-markable when one considers the vexatioustaxes and restrictions that Spain imposed onher colonies. In 1806 occurred the British invasion underMajor-General (afterward Viscount)… … A VIEW IN THE DOCKS La Plata countries, would probably have beenBritish to-day, like Cape Colony, or at leastEnglish-speaking, had Beresford held the cityhe so easily captured. England and Spain were at war at this time,Spain being the ally of Napoleon. Beresford,who had been stationed at Cape of…
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