{"product_id":"the-silver-road-how-spain-and-latin-america-helped-to-win-the-american-revolutionary-war-paperback","title":"The Silver Road: How Spain and Latin America Helped to Win the American Revolutionary War - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarbara Pereira-Amador\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Silver Road\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eHow Spain and Latin America Helped to Win the American Revolutionary War\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Spanish-supplied muskets fired at Lexington and Concord in 1775 to the last-minute collection of silver pesos in Havana that funded the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, Spain and Latin America played a decisive role in the American Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Spanish smuggled the critical military supplies that the colonies could not produce. Latin American silver provided both the hard currency and the financing for the fledgling colonial economy. In 1779, Spain declared war on Britain, forcing the British to divert manpower and firepower from the Continental Army to battlefronts that stretched from Nicaragua to Florida to Gibraltar to England itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe world erupted in conflict. Britain was simultaneously challenged by Spain, France, the Netherlands, and the Mysore kingdom in India. By 1781, Yorktown had become the Americans' last chance. As the British scrambled to rescue their trapped army, Spain and Latin America supported the French navy and funded the victorious American and French armies on land. \u003cem\u003eThe Silver Road\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story that Americans are rarely told: how the Revolutionary War was actually won.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA little-known history\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on archival research from the Archivo General de Indias in Seville to the Library of Congress, Barbara Pereira-Amador reconstructs a global war fought on five continents-and the silver supply chain that made American independence possible. From the mines of South America and Mexico to the counting houses of Havana and the docks of Bilbao, a vast enterprise across the Spanish empire underwrote and supported the Revolution at decisive moments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInside \u003cem\u003eThe Silver Road\u003c\/em\u003e, readers will discover: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow Spain covertly armed the Continental Army years before formally entering the war against Britain, channeling supplies through the front company Roderigue Hortalez y Compañía.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy Latin American silver-not Continental paper currency-paid the soldiers, sailors, and suppliers who kept the Revolution alive.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe extraordinary collection of 500,000 silver pesos in Havana in August 1781, raised in hours, that funded Washington and Rochambeau's victory at Yorktown.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe forgotten campaigns of Bernardo de Gálvez and Francisco de Leyba along the Gulf Coast and the Mississippi, which disrupted the British campaigns to divide the colonies.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow the Revolution became a world war, with battlefronts from Central America to Europe to India shaping the outcome at Yorktown.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA story Americans rarely learn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe traditional narrative of the American Revolution centers on thirteen colonies, a French alliance, and a singular fight for liberty. \u003cem\u003eThe Silver Road\u003c\/em\u003e widens the lens, revealing a global financial and military network-anchored in Spain and the Americas-without which the United States could not have come into being. It is a story of empires, economics, and ingenuity, and of Spain and Latin America's foundational, unacknowledged role in the creation of a nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 260\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53521996611891,"sku":"9798995606109","price":26.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/dl2XuJfR_P9798995606109.webp?v=1781962368","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-silver-road-how-spain-and-latin-america-helped-to-win-the-american-revolutionary-war-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}