Posted on 04/08/2024 7:49:33 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Juan Jose Carrera and Luis Carrera were shot together in Mendoza as traitors on this date 200 years ago.
They two of the Hermanos Carrera, a generation of siblings that played a prominent role in the Chilean War of Independence during the 1810s. We have already detailed them through the entry on their more notable brother Jose Miguel Carrera … who would go on to share their fate in 1821.
Said Jose Miguel had established a dictatorship in 1811-1812, with his brothers as trusted lieutenants. But Chile’s initial flower of independence from 1810-1814 was crushed by Spanish reconquest thanks in part to a deadly rift that had opened between the Carreras and fellow independentista Bernardo O’Higgins: prior to the decisive loss to the Spanish, Luis Carrera and O’Higgins had fought a literal battle with one another. They patched things up well enough to fight the Spanish together a few weeks later, but once in exile in Mendoza, Argentina, after their defeat they hurled recriminations at one another for the outcome. Luis even killed O’Higgins’s aide Juan Mackenna in a duel.....
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I read about Simón Bolivar and regret that what he wanted , free speech, free Markets, he was unable to get done.
At first glance I thought this topic was opera singers.
Always loved the name Bernardo O’Higgins.
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