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Jose Miguel Carrera
Jose Miguel Carrera Verdugo was a Chilean general, considered one of the founders of independent Chile. Carrera was the most important leader of the Chilean War of Independence during the period of the Patria Vieja ("Old Republic"). After the Spanish Reconquista ("Reconquest"), he continued campaigning from exile. Eventually, he was executed in Mendoza, by the military of the United Provinces of South America (River Plate.)
Early years
He was born in Santiago, the oldest son of Ignacio de la Carrera y Cuevas and Francisca de Paula Verdugo Fernandez de Valdivieso y Herrera. Carrera carried out his first studies in the ...
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