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A War Betwixt Englishmen: Brazil Against Argentina on the River Plate. 1825-1830. By Brian Vale. London: I. B. Tauris, 2000. Distributed by St. Martin's Press, New York. ISBN 1-86064-456-2. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xi, 275. $59.50.
In this book, Brian Vale continues his examination of British naval of$cers' activities in South America after the end of the Napoleonic Wars rendered so many of them surplus or offered them but limited prospects. From Independence or Death! British Sailors and Brazilian Independence, 1822-5 (I. B. Tauris, 1996), he now turns to the less well-known Cisplatine War, which pitted the Brazilian empire against the Argentine Confederation over control of modern-day Uruguay, eventually created as a result of the conflict. The naval war...