JOSE See also:

• MIGUEL, MARIA EVARIST (1802–1866)

MIGUEL See also:

• JOSE MIGUEL CARRERA (1785-1821)

CARRERA (1785-1821)  , the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader in the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early fighting for the See also:

• INDEPENDENCE
• INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF
• INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF

independence of See also:

• CHILE, or CHILI (derived, it is said, from the Quichua chin , cold, or tchili, snow)

Chile, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• SANTIAGO, or SANTIAGO DE CHILE

Santiago on the 15th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1785 . Sent to See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain for a military career, he served in the See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army in the See also:

• NAPOLEONIC

Napoleonic See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war, but returned to Chile in See also:

• JULY

July 1811, where his vigorous See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character and military experience enabled him by means of a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of coup d'etats to See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place himself at the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the nationalist See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government . Though at first he laboured patriotically to establish a See also:

• STABLE

stable See also:

• ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration, to promote See also:

• EDUCATION

education, and to organize the Chilean forces, his selfish arrogant spirit produced dissensions between himself and other patriots, andit was his rivalry with Bernardo O'See also:

• HIGGINS, MATTHEW JAMES (1810-1868)

Higgins that led to the defeat of the nationalist forces at Rancagua in 1814 . In the expedition of1817, led by Jose de See also:

• SAN

San See also:

• MARTIN (Martinus)
• MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
• MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
• MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
• MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
• MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
• MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
• MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
• MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
• MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
• MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)

Martin and Bernardo O'Higgins, which resulted in the liberation of Chile, See also:

• CARRERA, JOSE MIGUEL (1785-1821)

Carrera had no See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share, owing to his hostility to the leaders, but he attempted to procure in the See also:

• UNITED

United States materials for a fresh enterprise of his own . The See also:

• ARGENTINE

Argentine government, however, suspicious of his intentions, would not allow him to go to Chile, and Carrera, enraged by this treatment and by the See also:

• EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out)

execution of his See also:

• BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers at See also:

• MENDOZA
• MENDOZA, ANTONIO HURTADO DE (1593?-1644)
• MENDOZA, DIEGO HURTADO DE (1503-1575)
• MENDOZA, PEDRO GONZALEZ DE (1428-1495)

Mendoza by the San Martin party, proceeded to organize See also:

• REBELLION

rebellion in AI gentina, but was eventually captured and shot at Mendoza on the 4th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1821 . See A . See also:

• VALDES, JUAN DE (c. 1500-1541)

Valdes, Revolucion Chilena y Campanas de la Independencia (Santiago, 1888), which is practically a vindication of Carrera's career; also P . B . Figueroa, Diccionario biografco de Chile, rs$o-188q (Santiago, 1888), and J . B . See also:

• SUAREZ, FRANCISCO (1548-1617)

Suarez, Rasgos biograficos de hombres notables de Chile (See also:

• VALPARAISO

Valparaiso, 1886), both giving See also:

• BIOGRAPHICAL

biographical sketches of prominent characters in Chilean See also:

• HISTORY

history .