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21 de jul. de 2019 · Bernardo O'Higgins (August 20, 1778–October 24, 1842) was a Chilean landowner, general, president, and one of the leaders of its struggle for independence. Although he had no formal military training, O'Higgins took charge of the ragged rebel army and fought the Spanish from 1810 to 1818, when Chile achieved its independence.
Bernardo O’Higgins falleció el 24 de octubre de 1842 a los 64 años de edad. Aquejado por una enfermedad del corazón, designó como heredera a su hermanastra Rosa . Sus restos reposaron por varios años en Perú hasta que, desde 1869 , permanecen en su Chile natal.
Bernardo O'Higgins was born on August 20, 1778. He was the illegitimate son of Ambrose O'Higgins, an ambitious Irishman employed in the Spanish colonial service and Isabel Riquelme, a member of a wealthy family of Spanish colonists. By 1788 Don Ambrosio, as Bernardo's father was known, had been appointed Governor-General of Chile.
Bernardo O'Higgins se opone y marcha con sus fuerzas hacia Santiago, siendo derrotado en el combate de Tres Acequias por Luis Carrera en agosto de 1814. Se refugia en la hacienda de Paula Jaraquemada, pero ante el desembarco del Brigadier español Mariano Osorio y su avance hacia Talca, subordina sus fuerzas a las de José Miguel Carrera.
Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme (August 20, 1778 - October 24, 1842), South American independence leader, was one of the commanders—together with José de San Martín—of the military forces that freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. He is known as the "liberator of Chile." Other men had held the title of Supreme Director of Chile, but O'Higgins was the first who ...
Bernardo O'Higgins fue un personaje que siempre generó polémica en su entorno, lo que se reflejó en los primeros estudios históricos acerca de su figura. Presentamos a continuación tres textos escritos sobre el caudillo patriota. Los dos primeros corresponden a sendos libros de Miguel Luis Amunátegui y Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, ambos ...
Bernardo O’Higgins, (born probably Aug. 20, 1776/78, Chillán, Chile, Viceroyalty of La Plata—died October 1842, Peru), South American revolutionary leader and first Chilean head of state (1817–23).The illegitimate son of a Spanish officer of Irish origin, he was educated in Peru, Spain, and England, where his Chilean nationalism was awakened.
