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Identifier: cu31924021189315 Title: Chile today and tomorrow Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors: Joyce, Lilian Elwyn (Elliott), 1884- Subjects: Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company

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Text Appearing Before Image: ive in peace and to give andtake fairly, it must have been difl&cult to choose sidesas regards the authorities to whom he gave recognitionand paid taxes; but for such revolutionaries as SanMartin the vision was simpler. He hung his own por-trait on the wall beside that of the Corsican; thememory of that superhuman conqueror infected hisblood and filled his landscape. The Spaniards in Chile, aware of the situation of theArmy of the Andes, were tricked into believing that themain body intended to descend into the central valleyby the southerly Planchon Pass. But early in Februarywhen the army was ready to set out, most of the troopswere marched by the Putaendo and the Cumbre,emerging near the plain of Chacabuco on the 12th. TheSpanish troops sent hurriedly to the encounter werescattered Hke chaff by the hardy South Americans,inured to wild country and able to march for days withsun-dried meat and a handful of toasted maize as theironly food. The battle of Chacabuco was a rout so de-

Text Appearing After Image: In the Chilean Andes.A Chilean Glacier, Central Region.Rio Blanco Valley, above Los Andes. CHILEAN HISTORY 53 cisive that the Spanish leaders did not even attempt toenter and hold Santiago: they fled hastily to Val-paraiso, and, accompanied by scores of their panic-stricken sympathisers, filled nine ships and sailed awayto Peru. Bernardo 0Higgins,to whose energy this success waschiefly due, was made Supreme Director of Chile,openly independent now, with no more talk of Ferdi-nand, although the actual proclamation was delayeduntil February 12, 1818, upon the anniversary ofChacabuco. In the same year Osorio came back, with5000 Spanish troops, and in March San Martin wassurprised and his army badly defeated at CanchaRayada; it was followed by a repetition of the exodusover the Andes as after the Rancagua defeat, but inbetter weather. Nor did the exile of the patriots lastso long, for on April 5, before the Spaniards could takepossession of Santiago, the Chileans attacked again andwon the

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