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... immediately , and found the ditch filled with dead bodies , and the enemy , notwithstanding the loss they had sustained , preparing to recommence the combat ; but , joining the besieged , he ad- vanced in order of battle against their ...
... immediately , and found the ditch filled with dead bodies , and the enemy , notwithstanding the loss they had sustained , preparing to recommence the combat ; but , joining the besieged , he ad- vanced in order of battle against their ...
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... immediately dispatched a consider- able number of recruits by land under the com- mand of Monroy , who had the good fortune to conceal his march from the Copiapins ; and at the same time gave directions to Juan Batista Pastene , a noble ...
... immediately dispatched a consider- able number of recruits by land under the com- mand of Monroy , who had the good fortune to conceal his march from the Copiapins ; and at the same time gave directions to Juan Batista Pastene , a noble ...
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... immediately ordered there , and had several encounters with them with various suc- cess . In 1549 he rebuilt the city in a more ad- vantageous situation ; its inhabitants claim him as their founder , and the most distinguished of them ...
... immediately ordered there , and had several encounters with them with various suc- cess . In 1549 he rebuilt the city in a more ad- vantageous situation ; its inhabitants claim him as their founder , and the most distinguished of them ...
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... immediately to the election of a commander in chief , to which the Toquis have the first claim , as being the hereditary generals or stadtholders of the republic . If neither of them is deemed qualified for the command , dis- missing ...
... immediately to the election of a commander in chief , to which the Toquis have the first claim , as being the hereditary generals or stadtholders of the republic . If neither of them is deemed qualified for the command , dis- missing ...
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... immediately closing in and fighting hand to hand with the enemy . The art of making gun - powder is as yet un- known to these warlike people . Either they regard it but little , or , what is more probable , those Spaniards with whom ...
... immediately closing in and fighting hand to hand with the enemy . The art of making gun - powder is as yet un- known to these warlike people . Either they regard it but little , or , what is more probable , those Spaniards with whom ...
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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...