[364] =amaneciendo... Buenos Aires=, _finding themselves at dawn in view of Buenos Aires_. [365] =Olivos=. V. map. [366] =San Isidro=. V. map. [367] =Corrales de Miserere=. V. map. [368] =el jefe=, _i.e._, Liniers. [369] =Beresford=. He was in command of the British infantry forces landed by Popham. [370] =dejaban entrever=, _showed_. The subject is =pedidos=. [371] =Pueyrredón=. Later chosen Director of Argentina. [372] =Vencedor=, _if victorious_; =vencido=, _if vanquished_. [373] =era=. The imperfect is used here, instead of the conditional, for emphasis. [374] =el Retiro=. V. map. [375] =salvó=. The object is =las dos millas=. [376] =calle del Correo=. To-day known as =calle Florida=, the Fifth Avenue of Buenos Aires. [377] =Plaza Mayor=. To-day =Plaza de Mayo=. [378] =había que prevenirse=, _preparation had to be made_. [379] =no resolviéndose a abandonar=, _being unable to bring themselves to abandon_. [380] =con rendirse a discreción=, _provided he surrendered unconditionally_. [381] =afirmándola con una salva=, _asserting its power with a salvo_. [382] =Callao=, city and port of Peru. [383] =era nacido=. The more common usage is =había nacido=. [384] =recuerdo=. Reference to the statue of Falucho in Buenos Aires. [385] =Tablada de Lurín=, tollhouse of Lurín; in the suburbs of Lima. [386] =la independencia del Perú=. San Martín declared the independence of Peru in 1821. [387] =se caracteriza como... militar=, _can be characterized as a profound political and military plan_. [388] =con la espada de Chacabuco y Maipo=, _i.e._, the two most decisive battles fought by San Martín in Chile, in 1817 and 1818. These victories gave Chile its independence. [389] =emancipación de un mundo=, _i.e._, South America. [390] =Bolívar= (Simón). Together with San Martín he brought about South American independence. He had been triumphant in the North and founded the republic of Gran Colombia, now Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1783, and died in 1830. The hopes and ambitions for which he had fought (a great republic by the name of Gran Colombia) had been set at naught in his own times by the revolt of the constituent members. [391] =Chimborazo=, lofty mountain and volcano in Ecuador. [392] =Pichincha=, volcano in Ecuador; the allied troops of Bolívar and San Martín won a decisive victory over the Spaniards in this vicinity in 1822. Cf. 126, 1. [393] =que=. The antecedent is =genio=, referring to =Bolívar= in line 3. [394] =todo lo refería a=, _considered everything in relation to_. [395] =Astrea=, the goddess of Justice in Greek mythology. [396] =vaso opaco de la Escritura=, _unassuming chosen vessel of the Scriptures_. [397] This sentence has no principal verb. Supply =murió=--. [398] =la una=, _i.e._, =de Bolívar=. [399] =la otra=, _i.e._, =de San Martín=. [400] =su=, _i.e._, =del Perú=. [401] =su=, _i.e._, =de San Martín=.