An exploration of women's involvement in the Latin American Wars of Independence

Francis Bond Head

Gender:Male

Ethnic origen: White

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Texts:
1826 - Journeys Across the Pampas and among the Andes
1826 - Journeys Across the Pampas and among the Andes
1826 - Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the Andes

Biography:
He was born on 1 January 1793 in Kent, England. He was an officer in the British army and took part in the battle of Waterloo. He married Julia Valenza Somerville in England in 1816. They had four children. He left the army and found a post as a mining supervisor, he went to Argentina and Chile from 1825-1826 assessing the possibility of making money from the South American mines. He left his family in a house on the outskirts of Buenos Aires and travelled by horse through the pampas. He lived rough, often sleeping on the ground. He concluded that there was no fortune to be made. He published the notes he had taken on his way to make money, Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the Andes was published in 1826. By 1846 it was in its fourth edition. He wrote for the next fifty years, and continued to ride horses. He died on 23 March 1879. (Head, vii-xxi)

William Robertson refers to his book and describes him as "Sir Francis Bond Head" the "late governor of Canada". (Robertson, vol.1, 194)

References:

Head, Francis Bond (1967) Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the Andes
Robertson, John Parish and W. P. (1970) Letters on Paraguay