The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 385 pages |
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... Soldiers against the General , CHAP . VII . - The Copiapins defeat a Body of Spa- niards ; Successful Stratagem employed by the Quillo- tanes ; Valdivia receives Reinforcements from Peru ; He founds the City of Coquimbo , which is ...
... Soldiers against the General , CHAP . VII . - The Copiapins defeat a Body of Spa- niards ; Successful Stratagem employed by the Quillo- tanes ; Valdivia receives Reinforcements from Peru ; He founds the City of Coquimbo , which is ...
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... soldiers , encouraged by their general , who had no idea of the danger of the passage , advanced with much toil to the top of those rugged heights . But victims to the severity of the weather , 150 Spaniards there perished , with 10,000 ...
... soldiers , encouraged by their general , who had no idea of the danger of the passage , advanced with much toil to the top of those rugged heights . But victims to the severity of the weather , 150 Spaniards there perished , with 10,000 ...
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... soldiers , to whom he also remitted the debts they owed him for the immense sums of money that he had advanced for the preparation of the enterprize . Being persuaded that in a short time he should have all the gold of the country at ...
... soldiers , to whom he also remitted the debts they owed him for the immense sums of money that he had advanced for the preparation of the enterprize . Being persuaded that in a short time he should have all the gold of the country at ...
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... soldiers having sepa- rated from the army , proceeded to Guasco , where they were at first well received , but were afterwards put to death by the inhabitants , in consequence , no doubt , of some acts of violence , which soldiers ...
... soldiers having sepa- rated from the army , proceeded to Guasco , where they were at first well received , but were afterwards put to death by the inhabitants , in consequence , no doubt , of some acts of violence , which soldiers ...
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... soldiers the dangers to which a settlement would be exposed in so war- like a country , and persuaded them to follow him to Cuzco , where he hoped to establish himself either by favour or force . His fatal experience of the mountain ...
... soldiers the dangers to which a settlement would be exposed in so war- like a country , and persuaded them to follow him to Cuzco , where he hoped to establish himself either by favour or force . His fatal experience of the mountain ...
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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...