A compatriot following in footsteps of the Irish/British Legion recently sent me this post card, check out further information on the web, google Cerro de la Gloria. Owain Glyndwr eat your heart out! I would rather WAG give money and Patriots donated to funds for a memorial on scale of below to Owain Glydwr's 'Grand Army of National Liberation' atop Penrallt, Machynlleth or maybe atop Caerdrewyn overlooking Corwen, than a crumbling down wall with some 40 year old slogan on it. I don't think that £80. 000 is money well spent, do you? really!!!
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.For a good history of Latin America's Wars of National Liberation? Not for the native population however? Keep that in mind and note that their Freedom Struggles continues to this day, will do a post on this soon and put the Patagonia Welsh Colony into a rather deeper 'insight' in this context, after all were our Welsh Settlers any different from all the European Settlers who helped colonise the land of Native Peoples who at the same time were facing ''Indian Wars'' in Latin America every bit as harsh as in the USA. Whatever, do read this and other books on subjects associated with the 1810 - 2010 Anniversary Commemoration. By the way, there were Welsh volunteers in the Irish/British Legion, not very well informed on but search web anyway for refs to this Post Napoleonic War Legion of Volunteers/Mercenaries, interesting stuff. I am amazed there has not been any fictional treatment of this in books or films, desperately waiting to be done.
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