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Colonial PotosĂ­ printed in Mexico under the title of "History of the Imperial Villa of PotosĂ­" in 3 luxury volumes, 60 years later, thus clarifying much of the history about the Viceroyalty of Charcas. The author owns a set of these 3 volumes. (Rolando Rivero L.). Church had met the musician and composer Olivia Sconzia, with whom he had two daughters: Blanche, born in
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It is thanks to his efforts that the manuscripts of Bartholomé Arzans Orsúa y Vela, which remained in Europe for many years without being transcribed, were purchased from the London Museum and donated to Brown University in Rhode Island, USA (Brown University Press). who had these chronicles about
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He had an illegitimate daughter with Da. Natalia Palacios Gutiérrez called Margarita, of whose existence she found out years later. He was Col. Church legitimately married in England to another lady, but later recognizes his daughter from Bolivia.
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that derailed soon after its first run in 1878. Thought lost to the Brazilian rainforest, the locomotive was rediscovered decades later and refurbished; it now sits on static display at the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad Museum in
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industry. During this period he wrote extensively on South and Central American, its people and its geography, often in partnership with his friend
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to find a way to explore a navigation enterprise that linked the Mamoré and Madeira Rivers, to extract raw materials from the
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Katsuragawa, Tony Hiroshi; Gil, Luiz Herman Soares; Tada, Mauro Shugiro; Silva, Luiz Hildebrando Pereira da (December 2008).
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in 1880, he then advised on railway projects in Argentina in 1889, and was then appointed United States commissioner to
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from 1868, becoming the leading authority on that region of South America. At this point, he spoke fluent
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After his military service, he was appointed chief engineer for the Fall River railway extension of
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in 1866. While acting as a correspondent, Church was appointed a principal military adviser of
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in 1895, to report on its debt and railways, with the possibility of improvements to the
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languages of Mexico, and Central and South America. In 1869, Church was appointed by the
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In his will, Church left his collection of over 3,500 volumes of notes and materials to
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This friendship lead him to live most of the last 30 years of his life in
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to explore the construction of a railway to connect the border states of
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On qualification, Church undertook various civil projects including the
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After the death of his father, aged 7 he and his mother moved to
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side of the mountains, in 1870 he gained a concession from the
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Having written on issues associated with Mexico, the
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Colonel
civil engineer
geographer
explorer
South America
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Benjamin Church
Edward Winslow
Mayflower
Providence, Rhode Island
civil engineer
Hoosac Tunnel
Boston & Maine Railroad
Argentine Great Northern Railway
Buenos Aires
Argentina
American Civil War
Army of the Potomac
7th Rhode Island Infantry
11th Rhode Island Infantry
Providence, Warren, and Bristol Railway
United States Government
war correspondent
New York Herald
President
Benito Juárez
Maximilian I of Mexico
River Amazon
Spanish

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