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References
- ↑ Robertson, William Spence (1909). Francisco de Miranda and the Revolutionizing of Spanish America. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 269–71, 311.
- ↑ Waddell, D. A. G (1987). "British Neutrality and Spanish-American Independence: The Problem of Foreign Enlistment". Journal of Latin American Studies. 19 (1). Cambridge University Press: 1–18. doi:10.1017/S0022216X00017119. JSTOR 156899. S2CID 154842346.
- ↑ Webster, Sir Charles Kingsley (1938). Britain and the Independence of Latin America, 1812-1830, Volume 1. Oxford University Press. p. 74.
- Bibliography
- Terragno, Rodolfo. Maitland & San Martin. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 1998. ISBN 987-9173-35-X
- Maitland & San Martin, download available, Spanish version only