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CHAPTER VI, 

 PERU. 



OCCUPATION OF LIMA BY THE PATRIOTS. 



In our absence, the campaign had made consi- 

 derable progress in Peru, and the Viceroy, press- 

 ed severely by want, and menaced by the growing 

 enmity of the districts surrounding the capital, 

 had requested an armistice. This was agreed to 

 by San Martin, and hostilities had ceased for two 

 months, during which the respective deputies fre- 

 quently met, and many projects for an accommo- 

 dation were discussed, without any satisfactory re- 

 sult. The object which the Spaniards seemed de- 

 sirous of attaining was, that an appeal to the mo- 

 ther country should be made by the Colonists, 

 and that, in the mean time, a truce should be 

 agreed upon, until the Cortes had considered tb^ 



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