Irish officers of Simon Bolivar's Army of Liberation - 1820

Pricing:  $85 USD SRP per set Features: - white metal - hand painted - historically accurate Delivery: In Stock

It is outside the Colombian city of Cartagena, under blockade by the forces of Simon Bolivar’s Army of Liberation August 1820 and Captain Morgan O’Connell, in his splendid uniform of the Hussar Guards of the Irish legion, is meeting for the first time General Daniel O’Leary. O’Leary so greatly impresses young O’Connell with the smartness of his Uniform of ADC and Military Secretary to Bolivar that he records his impressions in a letter to his father. These two young men sum up the extensive influence and participation that marked the Irish role in the struggle for South American independence.

Many Irish veterans of the Napoleonic wars served in both the British and Irish legions. These troops provided a solid core of battle hardened troops that allowed Bolivar’s army to stand face to face, and trade volley for volley ,with the Spanish regulars whose presence so threatened the independence movement. The hard fought victory at the battle of Carabobo was universally conceded as their finest moment.

O’Leary served Bolivar until the latter’s death in 1830. During this time he was in the thick of the fighting, suffering a sabre wound at the battle of Pantano Vargas, and undertaking many dangerous missions for Bolivar. In 1884 his body was re-interred in Caracas, forever next to his master, Bolivar.

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