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What do you do if you're a veteran British soldier, just as your country emerges from nearly half a century of fighting? North America is lost, France is defeated and Europe is weary of war.
But you've got to earn a crust somehow and South America, with all of that promise of gold, glory and legend is just too inviting to resist. And who likes the Spanish anyway?
