Sixteen Years in Chile and Peru: From 1822 to 1839Fisher, son, and Company, 1841 - 563 pages |
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Aconcagua amongst Arequipa army arrived Atahualpa attack battalion Bernardo O'Higgins Blanco boats Borgoño Callao capital Captain Caupolican Cauquenes cavalry chief Chile Chilian Chiloe Colonel Tupper command Commandante Concepcion conduct Coquimbo Cordilleras Cuesta decree dollars Don Jose Don Manuel earthquake enemy escaped excellency favour foreigners Freyre gave Gobierno governor hacienda halted honour horses Indians infantry informed inhabitants island Joaquin Prieto Juan Fernandez junta Lautaro leagues liberty Lieutenant-Colonel Lima Lord Cochrane Maipu manner Manuel Blanco Encalada Manuel Borgoño marched ment military minister native night O'Higgins officers party passed patriots Peru Peruvian Pincheyra Pizarro port president Prieto prisoners province Quillota Rancagua received republic retired river S'or San Martin Santa Cruz Señor sent ship soldiers soon Spaniards Spanish squadron supreme director Talca Talcahuano Thomas Sutcliffe took town TREATIES OF PAUCARPATA treaty troops Valdivia Valparaiso vessels visited whilst Yumbell
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Page 248 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Page 42 - An expedition, equipped by means of great sacrifices, is, at length, ready to proceed, and the army of Chili, united to that of the Andes, is now called upon to redeem the land in which slavery has longest existed, and from whence the latest efforts have been made to oppress the whole Continent.
Page 45 - Cochrane, who was leading, rowed alongside the first gun-boat, and, taking the officer by surprise, proposed to him, with a pistol at his head, the alternative of
Page 261 - Twas his to mourn Misfortune's rudest shock, Scourged by the winds, and cradled on the rock, To wake each joyless...
Page 417 - Atahualpa to embrace the Christian faith; to acknowledge the supreme jurisdiction of the Pope, and to submit to the king of Castile as his lawful sovereign ; promising, if he...
Page 64 - You have expelled from your country the enemies of your independence, do not sully the glorious act by encouraging discord and promoting anarchy — that greatest of all evils. Consult the dignity to which your heroism has raised you, and if you must take any step to secure your national liberty — judge for yourselves — act with prudence — and be guided by reason and justice.
Page 248 - Prieto, and yet which were executed with mournful fidelity. Tupper — illustrious shade of the bravest of soldiers, of the most estimable of men ; shade of a hero to whom Greece and Rome would have erected statues — your dreadful assassination will be avenged. If there be no visible punishment for your murderer, Divine vengeance will overtake him. It will demand an account of that infamous sentence pronounced against all strangers by a man t who at that time was the pupil and the tool of a vagabond...
Page 59 - I have ceased to be a public man. Thus I am more than rewarded for ten years spent in revolution and warfare. My promises to the countries in which I warred are fulfilled — to make them independent and leave to their will the elections of the governments.
Page 46 - ... north face of the castle. The Hyperion, an English, and the Macedonian, an American frigate, which were at anchor close to the scene of action, got under weigh when the attack commenced ; and, in order to prevent their being mistaken by the batteries for the Esmeralda, showed distinguishing signals : but Lord Cochrane, who had foreseen...
Page 43 - On that day when Peru shall freely pronounce as to the form of her institutions, be they whatever they may, my functions shall cease, and I shall have the glory of announcing to the government of Chile, of which I am a subject, that their heroic efforts have at last received the consolation of having given liberty to Peru, and security to the neighbouring states.