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Chilean military officer
Colonel
Luis Florentino Juan Manuel Silvestre de los Dolores de la Carrera y Verdugo
(1791 ? April 8, 1818) was a
Chilean
military officer who fought in the
Chilean War of Independence
. Together with his brothers
Jose Miguel
and
Juan Jose
, they were some of most important leaders of Chilean struggle for independence during the period of the
Patria Vieja
("Old Republic"). The
Carrera family
is of
Basque
origin.
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Luis Carrera was born in
Santiago
, the youngest son of
Ignacio de la Carrera y Cuevas
and of Francisca de Paula Verdugo Fernandez de Valdivieso y Herrera. Carrera completed his first studies at the
Convictorio Carolino
, the best school in the country at the time. In 1813 ? at the beginning of the
Chilean War of Independence
? he participated in the first encounter between the Patriot and Royalist troops at the
Battle of Yerbas Buenas
, as a commander of an artillery platoon. That same year he also participated in the disastrous
Siege of Chillan
, one of the most negative early experiences for the nascent
Chilean Army
, where after a long siege of the Spanish troops that were barricaded inside the city, the army had to withdraw in the midst of winter that same year. He also fought in the defense of Talca.
After the Spanish
reconquista
, the Carrera brothers were exiled to Argentina but continued campaigning from exile. On November 21, 1814 he killed Brigadier
Juan Mackenna
, one of the strongest supporters of General
Bernardo O'Higgins
, in a duel in the city of
Buenos Aires
. He was arrested and tried but later freed. Eventually, Luis was taken prisoner and executed in the city of
Mendoza
together with his brother
Juan Jose
by the military of the
United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata
in 1818.
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Bibliography
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- Barros Arana, Diego
(1855).
Historia Jeneral de la Independencia de Chile
(in Spanish). Vol. I?IV. Santiago, Chile: Imprenta del Ferrocarril.
- Gay, Claudio
(1856).
Historia de la Independencia Chilena
(in Spanish). Vol. I & II. Paris, France: Imprenta de E. Thunot y Cia.
- Vicuna Mackenna, Benjamin
(1857).
El Ostracismo de los Carreras
(in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta del Ferrocarril. p. 553.
- Zapiola, Jose
(1872?1876).
Recuerdos de treinta anos (1810?1840)
(in Spanish). Vol. I & II. Santiago, Chile: Imprenta de El Independiente. p. 310.
- "Genealogical chart of Carrera family"
(in Spanish). Archived from
the original
on March 6, 2005
. Retrieved
October 15,
2008
.
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