“Mercedes … this is the exhaustion of death. Mariano — back to my room.”

—  José de San Martín

Last words, during a fatal heart attack (17 August 1850), as reported in ‪Captain of the Andes : The Life of José de San Martín, Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru (1943) b‬y Margaret Hayne Harrison, p. 196

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