Looks at the voyage of Captain David Porter of the US Navy into the
Pacific, and his eventual defeat at the hands of Captain James Hillyar
of the Royal Navy in the battle of Valparaiso, an isolated naval action
on the coast of Chile, that came at the end of a remarkable but
controversial voyage. Includes fascinating material on the Chilean
revolution, Porter's adventurous if rather misguided voyage across the
Pacific, the battle itself and its aftermath
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