Forgotten flags

The Spanish Army in the Emancipation Wars

On this occasion, the Desperta Ferro publishing house has republished a book that is already a classic: Forgotten flags. The Spanish Army in the American Emancipation Wars, one of the few studies dedicated to the armies that fought for the Spanish Monarchy during the emancipation processes in Spanish America at the beginning of the 19th century. Cursed armies, like almost all defeated ones. Spain, as is common in its history (although not only, as we have seen regarding the British in Musa Qala) preferred to lose the memory of his failures, forgetting at the same time his sacrifices and his triumphs. However, Americans and Peninsulars fought together with admirable perseverance for what they believed was a just cause.

In this work of absolute reference, out of print for years, Julio Albi de la Cuesta, author of hits like From Pavia to Rocroi. The Spanish thirds, presents a masterful and resounding overview of the wars that sealed the independence of the American territories from the Spanish Monarchy, with passion but with equanimity; an exhaustive analysis of the armies, campaigns and battles traditionally ignored in Spanish historiography; a five-year period of conflicts that was decisive both for the future of the continent and for the metropolis, when a handful of soldiers risked the fate of entire countries, which in its first years developed alongside the War of Independence and would be marked by the new political ideas that were emerging on both sides of the Atlantic.

Chapter by chapter, Forgotten flags. The Spanish Army in the American Emancipation Wars It tours the main theaters of operations, analyzes the forces involved and describes the battles fought, in a conflict that was both a civil war and emancipation. A work that serves, therefore, as a tribute to the defeated, usually disdained by history, to the thousands of Spaniards and Americans – of every color, latitude and condition – who, from New Mexico to the deepest Chile, passing through the highlands Bolivian, they left their lives in the service of a lord who surely did not deserve such good vassals. Some men, a history and some flags that deserve to be rescued from oblivion.

A fascinating book that, as always, you can - and should - purchase by clicking well about the following link, or on the cover image that you will find below.