Francis Loraine Petre maintained, he used statistical information supplied by the President of Columbia. The book includes photographs that he took himself. His second book on South America was "Simon Bolivar—El Libertador; a life of the chief leader in the revolt against Spain in Venezuela, New Granada and Peru." Francis Loraine Petre Francis Loraine Petre (22 February 1852 – 6 May 1925) was a British civil servant in India and a military historian upon his retirement. He wrote a two-volume regimental history of the Norfolk Regiment, but is best known for his works on the Napoleonic Wars. The grandson of the 11th Baron
Eight Trigrams uprising of 1813 Eight Trigrams uprising of 1813 The Eight Trigrams uprising of 1813 broke out in China under the Qing dynasty. The rebellion was started by some elements of the millenarian Tianli Sect (天理教) or Heavenly Principle Sect, which was a branch of the White Lotus Sect. Led by Lin Qing (林清; 1770–1813) and Li Wencheng, the revolt occurred in the Zhili, Shandong, and Henan provinces of China. In 1812, the leaders of the Eight Trigram Sect ("Bagua jiao") also known as the Sect of Heavenly Order ("Tianli jiao") announced that leader Li Wencheng was a 'true lord of the Ming' and