Memorias de un oficial de la legión británica
Subtitle: campañas y cruceros durante la guerra de emancipación hispano-americana
Contributors: Mahoney, William D.; Terán, Luis de, translator
Series: Biblioteca Ayacucho -- [viii]; Biblioteca Ayacucho (Caracas, Venezuela) -- 8
Publisher: Editorials-América
Published: 1916
Place of publication: Madrid
Language: spa
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: History; Description and travel
Notes: At head of title ... Luis de Terán, traductor.

The English original was published in 3 volumes, with title: Campaigns and cruises, in Venezuella and New Grenada, and in the Pacific ocean, from 1817 to 1830 ... Also, Tales of Venezuela: illustrative of revolutionary men, manners, and incidents ... London, 1831. Vol 1 was translated into French, with title: Campagnes et croisiéres dans les états de Venézuéla et de la Nouvelle-Grenade; par un officer du ler régiment de lanciers venézuéliens ... Paris, 1837. The persent translation is from the French, but includes chapters 1 to 14 only.

Authorship attributed to Capt. Richard Longeville Vowell by Luis R. Zuloaga (cf. Boletín de la Biblioteca nacional [Caracas] Jan. 1, 1925, p. 163) and by José Toribio Medina (cf. Bibliographical essays; a tribute to Wilberforce Eames, 1924, p. 81-84); to Capt. William D. Mahoney by Vicente Lecune (cf. Cultura venezolana, June 1918, p. 84-85.)