The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 385 pages |
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... attack the Spa- niards ; Valdivia makes Incursions into their Territory and founds therein the Cities of Imperial , Villarica , Valdivia , and Angol , with several other Places , · CHAP . II . - Caupolican appointed Toqui ; He attacks ...
... attack the Spa- niards ; Valdivia makes Incursions into their Territory and founds therein the Cities of Imperial , Villarica , Valdivia , and Angol , with several other Places , · CHAP . II . - Caupolican appointed Toqui ; He attacks ...
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... attack the Promaucians , who could not be in- duced by the persuasions of the ambassadors to submit themselves . This nation , whose name signifies the free dancers , from their being much attached to that diversion , inhabited the ...
... attack the Promaucians , who could not be in- duced by the persuasions of the ambassadors to submit themselves . This nation , whose name signifies the free dancers , from their being much attached to that diversion , inhabited the ...
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Giovanni Ignazio Molina. undoubtedly built to protect that part of the frontier against the attacks of the unconquered Promaucians . Thus Chili became divided into two parts , the one free , and the other subject to foreign domi- nation ...
Giovanni Ignazio Molina. undoubtedly built to protect that part of the frontier against the attacks of the unconquered Promaucians . Thus Chili became divided into two parts , the one free , and the other subject to foreign domi- nation ...
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... attack of the enemy , and advancing with their horse , began a furious battle , which continued with great loss upon either side , till night separated the combatants . Although the Promaucians had been very roughly handled , they lost ...
... attack of the enemy , and advancing with their horse , began a furious battle , which continued with great loss upon either side , till night separated the combatants . Although the Promaucians had been very roughly handled , they lost ...
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... attack them upon all sides , with more valour than conduct . Like barbarians in general , incapable of making a common cause with each other , and for a long time accustomed to the yoke of servitude , they attacked them by hordes , or ...
... attack them upon all sides , with more valour than conduct . Like barbarians in general , incapable of making a common cause with each other , and for a long time accustomed to the yoke of servitude , they attacked them by hordes , or ...
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admapu Angol ANN RADCLIFFE Antiguenu appeared appointed Arau Araucanians Arauco Archipelago arms arrival attack Author battle besieged Bio-bio Boards Brit called Canete canians Caupolican cavalry CHAP chief Chili Chilian Chiloé civil Colocolo command containing Copiapo Crit Cujo death defeated Don Garcia enemy English Engravings European expedition favour foolscap 8vo fortress garrison give governor Grammar History horse Huilliches hundred illustrated Indians inhabitants island Jago killed language large vols Lautaro LINDLEY MURRAY Lumaco manner Maúle military mountains nation natives neral nians notwithstanding observed occasion officers Osorno particles peace Pedro Pehuenches person Peru Peruvians Plates POEMS possess present Price 12s principal prisoners Promaucians provinces Puelches Puren rendered retired river ROBERT SOUTHEY royal Second Edition sent settlements shore siege soldiers Spain Spaniards tained tenses thousand tion Toqui tribes troops Tucapel Ulmenes Valdivia valiant valour verb Villagran Volume whence
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Page 388 - F., Travels in South America, during the years 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804; containing a description of the Captain-Generalship of Caraccas, and an account of the discovery, conquest, topography, legislature, commerce, finance, and natural productions of the country; with a view of the manners and customs of the Spaniards and the native Indians, translated from the French, two volumes, London, 1807.
Page 193 - A detachment of cavalry was immediately sent under the guidance of this spy, and at day break made prisoner of that great man, but not till after a gallant resistance from ten of his most faithful soldiers, who would not abandon him. His wife, who never ceased exhorting him to die rather than surrender, on seeing him taken, indignantly threw towards him his infant son, saying, she would retain nothing that belonged to a coward. The detachment returned to the city amidst the rejoicings of the populace,...
Page 160 - There was one province, the population of which amounted, it is said, "to twelve thousand persons, of which number, not more than one hundred escaped with life." In accordance with the settlement enjoined by Valdivia, two officers of note, Alderete and one Francis Aiguirre, had precedence of Villagran in the government, but their absence at the time of the first viceroy's decease, left him without a rival. The return of Aiguirre to Chili threatened to involve...