User:Moises enrique rodriguez

Moises Enrique Rodriguez was born in Bogota (Colombia) on 6th June 1962. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1980 where he completed his GCE “A” Levels (Oxford College of Further Education) and where he obtained both a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering (University of Hertfordshire) and an M.Sc. in Computer Science (University of Birmingham).

He has lived in Switzerland since 1987 where he has occupied several positions in the field of Manufacturing Systems Engineering in both industry and the academic world. Moises Enrique Rodriguez admits to having read technical subjects for purely mercenary reasons (“they get you jobs which pay for the really interesting things in life”). He has always had a “double life” and has been a voracious reader of history and international affairs since childhood. He has put this hobby to good use and between 1980 and 1991 was the European correspondent of “El Siglo”, a Bogota newspaper. Based first in England and later in Switzerland, he published more than 250 articles in his column. He won three prizes for short stories in Colombia and several prizes for non-fiction essays in the United Kingdom (“The Arabs: Image and Reality”, “Canada and Latin-America” and “Has Japan Changed?”). In addition, he has published several articles in American and European Engineering journals.

In 2006, he published “Freedom’s Mercenaries”, in which he tells the story of the thousands of foreign volunteers (mainly British and Irish) who fought in the Wars of Independence of Latin America (1810-1825). This comprehensive study consists of almost 1’000 pages and is available in two volumes.

In 2009, he published “Under the Flag’s of Freedom”, which can be read either independently or as part of a trilogy. In this 500-page study, he tells the story of the foreign volunteers (mainly British and Irish) who fought in the War of the Two Brothers, the First Carlist War and the Greek War of Independence (1821-1840).

He is presently researching books on the Wild Geese (Irish soldiers in Continental Europe) and the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance.