Historia de las guerras (...). 1896.

Historia de las guerras con los terribles calchaquíes, chiriguanos y quilmes. Completa conquista del antiguo Tucumán. La tropa tucumana á la defensa de Buenos Aires. Verídica narración histórica y tradicional ligada con estos hechos de la Virgen del Valle de Catamarca. Por el presbítero Pascual P. Soprano. Doctor de la Universidad de Roma y Canónigo Honorario. Obra elogiada por el insigne historiador T. General D. Bartolomé Mitre. Buenos Aires, Establecimiento Tipográfico de Alberto Monkes, 1896.

Quarto (20.5 x 14 cm / 8.07 x 5.51 in), 430 pp. (includes Title page), XIII. Spanish paste binding with gilt titles. Copy in excellent condition.

“There were three great conquests of Spain in this extreme South America, namely: the Conquest of Chile, the Conquest of Paraguay and Buenos Aires, and in between, the Conquest of Tucumán. (...) The three conquests of the south can rightly be called three great Epics. For the space of one hundred and fifty years, an immense theater unfolds before the historian, an enchanting panorama, all filled and varied with infinite labors, with heroic struggles, with admirable tricks, with sublime protagonists, with terrifying setbacks and surprises.

However, the conquest of Tucumán, which was in the center, stands out from the other two that are next to it. It stands out for the extension of the theater, ranging from the borders of Bolivia to the Carcaraña, and from Chaco to the Andes and the Pampas: and we can say even the Magellanic lands, because the troops of Tucumán marched there three times in search of the fabulous city of the Caesars or Trapalanda. It stands out for the number of cities founded, important and subsisting, such as Salta, Jujuy, San Miguel, Santiago, Catamarca, Rioja and Córdoba. It stands out for the number and excellence of generals and warriors who figured in that conquest. It stands out for the number of battles and fights, for the indomitable heroism of the adversaries. And from the bottom of the great epic stands out the figure of the tremendous Calchaquíes, who with their final fall close the bloody drama of one hundred and fifty years”.

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