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IA revolutionary war raises many strange characters out of the obscurity which is thecommon lot of humble lives in an undisturbed state of society.Certain individualities grow into fame through their vices and their virtues, or simply bytheir actions, which may have a temporary importance; and then they become forgotten.The names of a few leaders alone survive the end of armed strife and are further preservedin history; so that, vanishing from men's active memories, they still exist in books.The name of General Santierra attained that cold paper-and-ink immortality. He was aSouth American of good family, and the books published in his lifetime numbered himamongst the liberators of that continent from the oppressive rule of Spain.That long contest, waged for independence on one side and for dominion on the other, developed in the course of years and the vicissitudes of changing fortune the fierceness andinhumanity of a struggle for life. All feelings of pity and compassion disappeared in thegrowth of political hatred. And, as is usual in war, the mass of the people, who had the leastto gain by the issue, suffered most in their obscure persons and their humble fortunes