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shipped for the purpose of organizing fresh corps 

 of the Peruvians, who, it was expected, would 

 flock to the Independent standard as soon as the 

 expedition landed. General San Martin was 

 named Commander-in-chief, and Captain-general 

 of the United Liberating Army of Peru. 



The fleet under Lord Cochrane consisted of 

 the CHiggins, of 50 guns, bearing his Lordship's 

 flag at the main ; the San Martin, 60 ; the Lau- 

 taro, 40 ; Independencia, 24 ; and three smaller 

 vessels. The transports were twenty in number, 

 chiefly prizes captured from the Spaniards. 



The first bulletin of the Liberating Army 

 opens with the following words, which state the 

 object of the expedition briefly and with some 

 spirit :— 



Valparaiso, 13th of August 1820. 

 " In the tenth year of the South American 

 Revolution, and the three hundredth of the con- 

 quest of Peru ; a people, whose rank in the social 

 scale has been hitherto rated below its destiny, 

 has undertaken to break those chains which Pi- 



