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men, leading them to victory at Fisco, when he was pierced by two balls, 

 one passing through his liver, and another through his breast. In 

 February 1820, though still weak and suffering from his former desperate 

 wounds, he headed the storming party in the boats, in the gallant attack 

 and capture of the forts of Valdivia in Chile, where he was again wounded 

 in the head ; and in the subsequent attemjjt on Chiloe he received a ball 

 through his left groin, and a cannon-shot broke one of his feet. In May 

 1821 he landed in Peru, and defeated the Spaniards in the hard-fought 

 battle of Mirabe; in 1823 he conducted a most adventurous and romantic 

 campaign through the whole range of the deserts of Peru, from Arequipa to 

 Pisco, defeating the Spaniards, with greatly inferior numbers, on several 

 occasions ; and in the same year he becam^e General of Brigade. 



In May 1824 General Miller received the command of the Peruvian 

 cavalry of Bolivar's liberating aiTny, and took a princii3al part in the victory 

 of Junin in the following August. Soon afterwards he assumed the com- 

 mand of the whole of the cavalry of the liberating army, at the head of 

 which he charged, and routed the division of General Valdez in the 

 glorious battle of Ayacucho, at a most critical moment. This brilliant 

 action was fought on the 9th of December 1824, and decided the fate of 

 the war, the entire Spanish army of 10,000 men under General La Serna, 

 Viceroy of Peru, being utterly routed. In February 1825 he was Prefect 

 of Puno, and in April of Potosi ; but in 1826 he returned to England on 

 leave of absence, to cure himself of his wounds, which still caused him 

 great suffering. 



After a stay of some years in England he returned to Peru in June 1830 

 but, owing to the factious outbreaks in which he did not choose to take 

 part, he again obtained leave of absence in 1831, and visited manj- of the 

 islands of the Pacific Ocean, especially the Sandwich and Society groups, 

 of which he wrote a most interesting account ; and only returned to Peru 

 after the constitutional election of General Orbegoso as President of the 

 Republic. In the early part of 1834 he served in a campaign against the 

 revolutionary chief Gamarra ; and, though defeated at Huaylacucho, his 

 operations w^ere on the whole successful, and he was promoted to the rank 

 of Grand Marshal of Peru on June 11th, 1834. 



In October 1834 he was appointed Military Governor of Arequipa, Puno, 

 and Cuzco; and it was at this time that he conceived the idea of forming a 

 military colony in the valleys to the eastward of Cuzco, on the banks of 

 some of the tributaries of the great river Pui-us. In March 1835, while on 

 the point of setting out on an exploring expedition, a revolution broke out 

 in Cuzco, and he was arrested by Colonel Lopera. He was, however, 

 allowed to set out on his expedition, with two companions and seven 

 Indians. He penetrated on foot to a greater distance to the eastward of 

 Cuzco, on this occasion, than has ever been done before or since. 



In September 1835 he again placed himself under the orders of the Consti- 

 tutional President Orbegoso, and in February 1836 he captured Salaverry 

 and eighty officers of his revolutionary army by a very clever stratagem. 



