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... cavalry , they soon began to discipline themselves in the same Their first care was to procure a good breed of horses , which in a short time became so numerous , that in the year 1568 , seventeen years after their first opposing the ...
... cavalry , they soon began to discipline themselves in the same Their first care was to procure a good breed of horses , which in a short time became so numerous , that in the year 1568 , seventeen years after their first opposing the ...
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... cavalry is armed with swords and lances ; the infantry with pikes or clubs pointed with iron . They formerly employed bows and slings , in the use of which they were very dexterous , but since the arrival of the Spaniards , they have ...
... cavalry is armed with swords and lances ; the infantry with pikes or clubs pointed with iron . They formerly employed bows and slings , in the use of which they were very dexterous , but since the arrival of the Spaniards , they have ...
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... cavalry , proceed on horseback , but on coming to action they im- mediately dismount , and form themselves into their respective companies . Each soldier is obliged to bring from home not only his arms but his supply of provisions ...
... cavalry , proceed on horseback , but on coming to action they im- mediately dismount , and form themselves into their respective companies . Each soldier is obliged to bring from home not only his arms but his supply of provisions ...
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... cavalry into two wings , and place the infantry in the centre , divided into several bat- talions , the files being composed alternately of pikemen and soldiers armed with clubs , in such a manner that between every pike a club is al ...
... cavalry into two wings , and place the infantry in the centre , divided into several bat- talions , the files being composed alternately of pikemen and soldiers armed with clubs , in such a manner that between every pike a club is al ...
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... cavalry , re- ceived the furious attacks of the enemy with their accustomed valour , killing a great number of them , but losing at the same time many of their own men . The battle remained undecided for several hours . The Spaniards ...
... cavalry , re- ceived the furious attacks of the enemy with their accustomed valour , killing a great number of them , but losing at the same time many of their own men . The battle remained undecided for several hours . The Spaniards ...
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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...