Anita Arnon

So you've got Brits, you've got Irish legions, you've got Bengalis.

Brilliant.

It is this coming together of everybody who wants to poke the Spanish in the eye.

I have not.

What is Barry Lyndon?

Okay.

If anyone's got four hours to spend, you know what you're meant to do.

I want to mention one other British Army veteran who will prove to be very, very important in a very difficult war for Bolivar.

And that's the veteran William Miller, who is a man who rises to command Bolivar's cavalry, which is going to be so important in the Peruvian War of Independence.

And he is so beloved by Peruvians afterwards.

An independent Peruvian government will promote military grand marshal, which is his highest rank, military rank.

So that will happen later.

So what you've got is a situation of all these people, Horatio Hornblower type, so we're popping up all over the place.

And the Spanish are basically playing whack-a-mole.

So they're trying to stamp out little fires now all over South America.

And at this time where they're somewhat distracted and trying to

Just keep some kind of semblance of order.

It feels like overnight everything's gone bonkers in Latin America.

Bolivar decides he's going to do something that quite frankly on paper sounds insane.

Yeah.