By Elaine Donnelly
Extending sexual misconduct to combat units
Independent voices from the TWT Communities

The U.S. Navy conducting intelligence operations in the inner regions of China? Including arming and directing guerrilla bands to fight the Japanese?

This is a blood-and-thunder tale about a little-known aspect of Simon Bolivar's fight for the independence of Venezuela and Colombia from the Spanish crown. It ascribes a significant role to certain British and Irish veterans of the Duke of Wellington's army who served in Bolivar's military campaigns against the royal colonial forces.