The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 385 pages |
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... troops ; His Expedition against Caupolican , CHAP . IV . - Don Garcia orders twelve Ulmenes to be hanged ; He founds the City of Canete ; Caupolican , attempting to surprise it , is defeated , and his Army en- tirely dispersed , CHAP ...
... troops ; His Expedition against Caupolican , CHAP . IV . - Don Garcia orders twelve Ulmenes to be hanged ; He founds the City of Canete ; Caupolican , attempting to surprise it , is defeated , and his Army en- tirely dispersed , CHAP ...
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... ambassadors , and fol lowed by a large body of troops , this general subjected to the Peruvian government , more by persuasion than by force , the Copiapins , Coquim banes , Quillotanes , and Mapochinians . After this , 9.
... ambassadors , and fol lowed by a large body of troops , this general subjected to the Peruvian government , more by persuasion than by force , the Copiapins , Coquim banes , Quillotanes , and Mapochinians . After this , 9.
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... troops with very little loss . On his return to Peru in 1538 , he took posseş- sion by surprise of the ancient capital of that empire ; and , after several ineffectual negocia- tions , fought a battle with the brother of Pizarro , by ...
... troops with very little loss . On his return to Peru in 1538 , he took posseş- sion by surprise of the ancient capital of that empire ; and , after several ineffectual negocia- tions , fought a battle with the brother of Pizarro , by ...
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Giovanni Ignazio Molina. European troops that had as yet been collected in those parts . The thirst of riches was the moving spring of the expedition , and the disap- pointment of their hopes of obtaining them , the cause of its failure ...
Giovanni Ignazio Molina. European troops that had as yet been collected in those parts . The thirst of riches was the moving spring of the expedition , and the disap- pointment of their hopes of obtaining them , the cause of its failure ...
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... troops , with orders to super- intend the digging of this precious metal . The mine that was opened was so rich that its product surpassed their most sanguine hopes . Their present and past sufferings were all buried in oblivion , nor ...
... troops , with orders to super- intend the digging of this precious metal . The mine that was opened was so rich that its product surpassed their most sanguine hopes . Their present and past sufferings were all buried in oblivion , nor ...
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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...