Word: ayacucho
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...last foreign engagement: Dec. 9, 1824, when a Colombian contingent helped defeat the Spanish army at Ayacucho, Peru, and crack the power of Spain in the New World...
Shaken but still hopeful, De Ferrari took the children on to the mission school at Puerto Ayacucho. They stole clothes, tried to set fire to the buildings. One night they stole away. They were not seen again...
...rubber out of the dense forests of the Orinoco valley. For this he will use a new version of Higgins' famed Eureka boat especially built for jungle rivers. Already he has 25 of these boats ready to go. They will cut down the time from Puerto Ayacucho to Ciudad Bolivar from a hazardous ten days by canoe to 24 hours by Eureka-and carry a hundred times as much each trip...
...Rodo in Uruguay, Chocano in Peru and Ruben in Central America. He then commented with special interest upon the literature which developed at the beginning of the past century redolent with the longing for liberty; political writers such as Bolivar Mitre, Sarmlents, and the leaders of the fight at Ayacucho...
Upon the eve of the anniversary of the Battle of Ayacucho, Peru's Independence Day, and shortly before the arrival of special U. S. Ambassador and Envoy Extraordinary General John J. Pershing, a revolution broke out in Chota, a town near Cachapoyas...