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... Don Garcia de Mendoza arrives at Chili , with a Reinforcement of troops ; His Expedition against Caupolican , CHAP . IV . - Don Garcia orders twelve Ulmenes to be hanged ; He founds the City of Canete ; Caupolican , attempting to ...
... Don Garcia de Mendoza arrives at Chili , with a Reinforcement of troops ; His Expedition against Caupolican , CHAP . IV . - Don Garcia orders twelve Ulmenes to be hanged ; He founds the City of Canete ; Caupolican , attempting to ...
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... Don Garcia , ex- presses his admiration at meeting with troops so well disciplined , and possessing such perfection in tactics , which , to use his expressions , the most celebrated nations in the world have not been able to attain ...
... Don Garcia , ex- presses his admiration at meeting with troops so well disciplined , and possessing such perfection in tactics , which , to use his expressions , the most celebrated nations in the world have not been able to attain ...
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... tiers to protect them from the incursions of the enemy , who , he had learned from his spies , ex- pected a large supply of men and warlike stores from Peru , with a new commander . 2 CHAP . V. Don Garcia de Mendoza arrives at Chili 169.
... tiers to protect them from the incursions of the enemy , who , he had learned from his spies , ex- pected a large supply of men and warlike stores from Peru , with a new commander . 2 CHAP . V. Don Garcia de Mendoza arrives at Chili 169.
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... Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza . But as this charge had now become very dangerous , he resolved that at his departure he should be accompanied by a body of troops capable of supporting him , and acquiring him , if possible , the glory of ...
... Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza . But as this charge had now become very dangerous , he resolved that at his departure he should be accompanied by a body of troops capable of supporting him , and acquiring him , if possible , the glory of ...
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... Don Garcia in person , and the cavalry pur- sued their way by land under the orders of the quarter - master - general , Garcia Ramon . The fleet arrived in April , 1557 , in the bay of Con- ception , and came to anchor near the island ...
... Don Garcia in person , and the cavalry pur- sued their way by land under the orders of the quarter - master - general , Garcia Ramon . The fleet arrived in April , 1557 , in the bay of Con- ception , and came to anchor near the island ...
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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...