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    The First Chilean Navy Squadron was the heterogeneous naval force that terminated Spanish colonial rule in the Pacific and protagonized the most important...
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    in Port Mahón, Balearic Islands in 1791 for the Spanish Navy. The First Chilean Navy Squadron, under the command of Thomas Cochrane, captured her on the...
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    Águila was the first naval vessel of the Chilean Navy. She was later renamed Pueyrredón. She was the old US-smuggler Eagle, a 220-ton brig with sixteen...
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    First Chilean Navy Squadron. The ship was built in 1817 in the United States as Columbus. In November 1817 she was sent by the envoy of the Chilean government...
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    of Peru. There the First Chilean Navy Squadron, under the command of Manuel Blanco Encalada, captured her at Talcahuano. The Chileans renamed the ship O'Higgins...
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    Capture of the frigate Esmeralda (category Naval battles involving Chile)
    November 1820. A division of boats with sailors and marines of the First Chilean Navy Squadron, commanded by Thomas Cochrane, stealthily advanced towards Callao...
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    of the First Chilean Navy Squadron by a decree of Ramón Freire on 2 April 1826, Aquiles was for a long time the only ship of the Chilean Navy. 1828, under...
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  • Montezuma became Moctezuma and served as a sloop of the First Chilean Navy Squadron. The Chilean Navy sold her in 1828 and she returned to mercantile service...
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    a French squadron. In 1818 the Chilean government arranged for her purchase. When she arrived in Chile the Chileans took her into their navy as San Martín...
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    Historical Review, Volume 27, 1947, pp. 204-219 First Chilean Navy Squadron List of decommissioned ships of the Chilean Navy [1] Painting of the AVON...
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  • Independencia was a 26-gun corvette of the First Chilean Navy Squadron. The 851-ton ship was built in 1818 at the Forman Cheeseman Shipyard of New York...
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  • Paul Delano (category Chilean Navy personnel of the Spanish American wars of independence)
    1820. Delano died on February 4, 1842, in Talcahuano, Chile. First Chilean Navy Squadron Chilean frigate Independencia (1818) Freedom Expedition of Perú...
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  • later Milagro. On 24 July 1824 Commander Thomas Crosby of the First Chilean Navy Squadron captured the Spanish ships Milagro, (property of Vicente Benito...
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  • a French squadron. In 1818 the Chilean government arranged for her purchase. When she arrived in Chile the Chileans took her into their navy as San Martín...
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  • the Chilean Navy have been named Lautaro after Lautaro, a Mapuche leader during the War of Arauco. Lautaro (1818–1828), of the First Chilean Navy Squadron...
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    garrison disinterred and burned Brouwer's body. On 26 October 1818 First Chilean Navy Squadron under the command of Manuel Blanco Encalada and captured several...
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  • Simón Bolívar's forces that were fighting in the interior. The First Chilean Navy Squadron, commanded by Admiral Thomas Cochrane, was on the western coast...
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    The Chilean Air Force (Spanish: Fuerza Aérea de Chile (FACh) is the Air force of Chile and branch of the Chilean military. The first step towards the current...
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    The German East Asia Squadron (German: Kreuzergeschwader / Ostasiengeschwader) was an Imperial German Navy cruiser squadron which operated mainly in the...
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  • Manuel Hipólito Orella (category Chilean Navy officers)
    Navy. He was one of the first Chilean midshipmen who entered the nascent navy in 1818. He joined the First Chilean Navy Squadron and participated in the...
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    The Chilean Navy (Spanish: Armada de Chile) is the naval warfare service branch of the Chilean Armed Forces. It is under the Ministry of National Defense...
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    the Chilean Navy (First Chilean Navy Squadron) was founded and would operate until the end of the war. Between 1817 and 1820, Chile also used corsairs...
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    Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (category Chilean Navy personnel of the Spanish American wars of independence)
    revolutionary navies of Chile and Brazil during their respective wars of independence during the 1820s. While commanding the Chilean Navy, Cochrane also...
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    The Chilean Navy bought her in 1818 and she then served in the Chilean Navy, taking part in several actions during the liberation wars in Chile and Peru...
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  • Montezuma became Moctezuma and served as a sloop of the First Chilean Navy Squadron. The Chilean Navy sold her in 1828 and she returned to mercantile service...
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    Bernardo O'Higgins (category Chilean Army generals)
    founded the modern Chilean Navy under the command of the Scottish officer Lord Cochrane, establishing the First Chilean Navy Squadron, the Academy for Young...
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    recruit sailors for the First Chilean Navy Squadron. While there, he persuaded Lord Thomas Cochrane to accept command of the squadron. He retired from the...
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    Callao affair (category First Chilean Navy Squadron)
    people of Chile joined forces with the rebel Peruvians and revolted against Spanish authority in 1820. As result, a rebel First Chilean Navy Squadron under...
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    Cabello, then resources could be destined to Thomas Cochrane's powerful Chilean squadron to transport his army. In October of that year, 4,000 Colombian soldiers...
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    After the Chilean Civil War, the Chilean Navy briefly considered modernizing Esmeralda in March 1894 amid the quickly escalating Argentine–Chilean naval arms...
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