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... valour , and entirely defeated it in a battle , which , according to Garcilasso the historian , was con- tinued for three days in succession , in conse- quence of the continued reinforcements of both parties . The Inca , on learning the ...
... valour , and entirely defeated it in a battle , which , according to Garcilasso the historian , was con- tinued for three days in succession , in conse- quence of the continued reinforcements of both parties . The Inca , on learning the ...
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... valour than conduct . Like barbarians in general , incapable of making a common cause with each other , and for a long time accustomed to the yoke of servitude , they attacked them by hordes , or tribes , as they ad- yanced , without ...
... valour than conduct . Like barbarians in general , incapable of making a common cause with each other , and for a long time accustomed to the yoke of servitude , they attacked them by hordes , or tribes , as they ad- yanced , without ...
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Giovanni Ignazio Molina. yanced , without that steady firmness that cha- racterizes the valour of a free people . The Spaniards , however , notwithstanding the ill- combined opposition of the natives , traversed the provinces of Copiapo ...
Giovanni Ignazio Molina. yanced , without that steady firmness that cha- racterizes the valour of a free people . The Spaniards , however , notwithstanding the ill- combined opposition of the natives , traversed the provinces of Copiapo ...
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... valour , but with great disad- vantage on the part of the natives , who were far inferior to their enemies in arms and discipline . The musketry and the horse made a dreadful slaughter among men , who were armed only with bows and ...
... valour , but with great disad- vantage on the part of the natives , who were far inferior to their enemies in arms and discipline . The musketry and the horse made a dreadful slaughter among men , who were armed only with bows and ...
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... , who have hitherto , with incredible valour , opposed the overwhelming torrent of Spanish conquest , and from henceforward will furnish all the materials of our history . THE CIVIL HISTORY OF CHILI . BOOK II . CHAPTER 52.
... , who have hitherto , with incredible valour , opposed the overwhelming torrent of Spanish conquest , and from henceforward will furnish all the materials of our history . THE CIVIL HISTORY OF CHILI . BOOK II . CHAPTER 52.
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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...