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Topic: Jos Miguel Carrera


  
  Columbia Encyclopedia - Carrera Jos Miguel - AOL Research & Learn
With his brothers, Juan José and Luis, he overthrew the revolutionary junta headed by Martínez de Rozas in 1813 and dominated Chile until replaced by Bernardo O'Higgins later that year.
Later he was forbidden by José de San Martín to reenter Chile.
Involving Argentina in civil turmoil, Carrera was on the point of invading Chile when he too was captured and beheaded at Mendoza.
reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/carrera-jos-miguel/20051205210909990013   (141 words)

  
  Bernardo O'Higgins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1817, O'Higgins went back on the offensive with the aid of Argentine General José de San Martín.
There is a statue of O'Higgins in Richmond upon Thames, in south-west London in a square named after him, O'Higgins Square, and a blue plaque was erected in his honour at Clarence House in Richmond, the house at 2 The Vineyard in which he lived while studying in London.
José Miguel Carrera - The other father of Chile.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernardo_O%27Higgins   (401 words)

  
 JOSE MIGUEL CARRERA - LoveToKnow Article on JOSE MIGUEL CARRERA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Though at first he labored patriotically to establish a stable administration, to promote education, and to organize the Chilean forces, his selfish arrogant spirit produced dissensions between himself and other patriots, and it was his rivalry with Bernardo OHiggins that led to the defeat of the nationalist forces at Rancagua in 1814.
In the expedition of 1817, led by Jos de San Martin and Bernardo OHiggins, which resulted in the liberation of Chile, Carrera had no share, owing to his hostility to the leaders, but he attempted to procure in the United States materials for a fresh enterprise of his own.
See A. Valdes, Revolucion Chilena y Cam panes de la Jude pendencia (Santiago, 1888), which is practically a vindication of Carreras career; also P. Figueroa, D-iccionario biografico de Chile, r~io5887 (Santiago.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CA/CARRERA_JOSE_MIGUEL.htm   (258 words)

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