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CARRERA, JOSE MIGUEL (1785-1821)

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 401 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAR-CAU
CARRERA, JOSE MIGUEL (1785-1821) , the
principal
 
leader
  in the early fighting for the independence of Chile, was born at Santiago on the 15th of October 1785. Sent to Spain for a military career, he served in the Spanish army in the Napoleonic war, but returned to Chile in July 1811, where his vigorous
character
  and military experience enabled him by means of a
series
  of coup d'etats to place himself at the head of the nationalist government. Though at first he laboured 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, andit was his rivalry with Bernardo O'Higgins that led to the defeat of the nationalist forces at Rancagua in 1814. In the expedition of1817, led by Jose de San Martin and Bernardo O'Higgins, 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. The Argentine government, however, suspicious of his intentions, would not allow him to go to Chile, and Carrera, enraged by this treatment and by the execution of his
brothers
  at
Mendoza
  by the San Martin party, proceeded to organize rebellion in AI gentina, but was eventually captured and shot at
Mendoza
  on the 4th of September 1821.
See A. Valdes, Revolucion Chilena y Campanas de la Independencia (Santiago, 1888), which is practically a vindication of Carrera's career; also P. B. Figueroa, Diccionario biografco de Chile, rs$o-188q (Santiago, 1888), and J. B. Suarez, Rasgos biograficos de hombres notables de Chile (Valparaiso, 1886), both giving biographical sketches of prominent characters in Chilean history.


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