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| | Diego Jose Victor Portales |
 | | PORTALES, Diego Jose Victor (por-tah'-les), Chilian soldier, born in Santiago in June, 1793; died in Valparaiso, 6 June, 1837, He acquired his education in the College of San Cnrlos, and in 1817 obtained the place of assayer of the mint; but went to Peru in 1823 and entered commerce. |
 | | He returned to Chili in 1824, and, being discontented on account of heavy losses in a contract with the Chilian government, from whom he had obtained the monopoly of tobacco, joined the opposition, attacking the government in the paper "El Hambriento" in 1827. |
 | | Soon afterward a mutiny, led by Vidaurre and other officers, was organized, while Portales was at Valparaiso, and when the latter returned to Quillota and was reviewing his troops, he was made a prisoner by Vidaurre. |
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