'He is one of the founding fathers of Mexican independence, he is revered there'
An illustration from The Legend Of William Lamport Revolution was in the Lamport blood. And it was into this world, a world in which his father, and his father before him, had to fight for their freedom, that William was born. Like so many Catholics of that age, William's formative years were marked by persecution, by the oppressive regime of the British Empire. And from a young age he adopted the revolutionary ideals which had been sewn deep into his lineage. Having been sent to London to study with the Jesuits at the age of 13, William was forced to flee to the continent after he published ...
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