NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hippisley, G. (Gustavus) LBT ID: GuHippi1831 LOC ID: n2007036988 | B/BAP: 1770 DIED: 1831-07-15 |
SOURCES: thePeerage.com; David Sinclair, The Land That Never Was: Sir Gregor MacGregor and the Most Audacious Fraud in History (2003); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
Irish colonel who in 1817 raised a force in support of Bolivar's revolution; Byron found
his book on the subject soporific. | |
REFERENCES TO WORKS BY Gustavus Mathias Hippisley:
A Narrative of the Expedition to the Rivers Orinoco and Apuré in South
America: which sailed from England in November 1817, and joined the Patriotic Forces in
Venezuela and Caraccas. Found 3.
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