HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY
English Liberator
William Miller and the Independence of Spanish South America
The first major biography of William Miller, an anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist and anti-slavery general who played a key role in the wars for independence in Spanish South America.
During Admiral Thomas Cochrane’s demolition of imperial Spain’s naval presence in the Pacific during the revolutionary wars for Spanish South America, his raids were carried out by his marines under a young officer called William Miller. He came from nowhere – one of three sons of a baker in a small village in Kent, with no family influence, money, or even secondary education – but went on to have a meteoric rise in the armies that liberated the nations of Chile and Peru. William (or Guillermo, as he is known in South America) Miller is well recognised and loved particularly in modern Peru, but also across the swathe of nations liberated from Spanish rule during this period.
