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Under the Chilian Flag, by Harry Collingwood
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Title: Under the Chilian Flag A Tale of War between Chili and Peru
Author: Harry Collingwood
Illustrator: W. Rainey
Release Date: April 13, 2007 [EBook #21061]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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Under the Chilian Flag A Tale of War between Chili and Peru
By Harry Collingwood _______________________________________________________________________There was a state of war between Chili and Peru in the 1870s. It was all to do with a desert area that lay between Chili, Peru and Bolivia. At first this desert was not particularly claimed by any of these countries, but when it was discovered that it held rich reserves of nitrates, the three of them fell out.
Two young Englishmen, with sea-going experience, were aboard a British vessel trading in nitrates and other ores. The captain was a very disagreeable character, and they determined to leave him, and sign up with the Chilian authorities for employment in the Chilian Navy, which was short of officers. They were taken on, and the rest of the book details some of the adventures they had, and the trials and tribulations they endured.