Great Bastards of History by Juré Fiorillo

Author:Juré Fiorillo
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Published: 2010-10-19T21:00:00+00:00

The Battle of Maipu on the Chilean border, depicted here, subdued a Royalist uprising and cemented patriot control of Chile. The Battle of Maipu on the 5th April, 1818, printed by Raffet (lithograph), Spanish School, (19th century) / Private Collection / Index / The Bridgeman Art Library International

Buried initially in Lima, his body was brought back to Santiago with great ceremony in 1866, escorted by the navy that he had established, and reinterred in the capital as Chile’s foremost hero. The main street in Santiago was rechristened Boulevard O’Higgins, and it honored the once-outcast Bernardo, not the father who had turned his back on an unfortunate boy.

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