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... Royal Au- dience ; Government of Don Melchor Bravo de Sara- via ; Military Operations of Paillataru and his Suc- cessor Paynenancu ; Suppression of the Court of Au- dience ; Second Government of Quiroga ; Foundation of Chillan ; Some ...
... Royal Au- dience ; Government of Don Melchor Bravo de Sara- via ; Military Operations of Paillataru and his Suc- cessor Paynenancu ; Suppression of the Court of Au- dience ; Second Government of Quiroga ; Foundation of Chillan ; Some ...
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... Royal Audience ; Ineffectual Negotiation for Peace , 262 CHAP . VIII . Daring Enterprises of the Toquis Lientur and Putapichion , 272 CHAP . IX . - Continuation of the War ; Third Expedi- tion of the Dutch against Chili ; Peace ...
... Royal Audience ; Ineffectual Negotiation for Peace , 262 CHAP . VIII . Daring Enterprises of the Toquis Lientur and Putapichion , 272 CHAP . IX . - Continuation of the War ; Third Expedi- tion of the Dutch against Chili ; Peace ...
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... royal . Preceded , according to the specious custom of the Peruvians , by several ambassadors , and fol lowed by a large body of troops , this general subjected to the Peruvian government , more by persuasion than by force , the ...
... royal . Preceded , according to the specious custom of the Peruvians , by several ambassadors , and fol lowed by a large body of troops , this general subjected to the Peruvian government , more by persuasion than by force , the ...
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... royal letters patent , appointing him governor of two hundred leagues of territory , situated to the southward of the government granted to Francis Pizarro . The friends whom he had left in Peru , taking advantage of this opportunity ...
... royal letters patent , appointing him governor of two hundred leagues of territory , situated to the southward of the government granted to Francis Pizarro . The friends whom he had left in Peru , taking advantage of this opportunity ...
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... these men , under frivolous pretexts refused to confirm the royal nomination , and appointed to this expedition his quarter- master , Pedro de Valdivia , a prudent and active # officer , who had gained experience in the Italian war 36.
... these men , under frivolous pretexts refused to confirm the royal nomination , and appointed to this expedition his quarter- master , Pedro de Valdivia , a prudent and active # officer , who had gained experience in the Italian war 36.
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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...