Ocuppation of the Chilean Territory
For the conqueror Pedro de Valdivivia; with his
army settled in Santiago, after successful consecutive battles, some
of them towards the north, where he founded La Serena city (1544), and
then, towards the south, meant an ocupation of a vast territory, and
simultaneously the possibility of founding several important cities as
Concepción (1550) and
Valdivia (1552).
The Arauco War
With a huge part of Chile already occupied, Valdivia, even though, he
knew about the strong resistance of the natural inhabitants in the southern
region, persisted in his desire of acquiring sovereignty beyond the Bío-Bío
river. While confronting the chilean aborigines under the leadership
of Caupolicán and Lautaro, he lost his life.
These magnificient warriors, battling against a superior military force,
gave a clear demonstration, that the audacity and extreme braveness were
sufficient weapons for not being appeased, forcing the hispanics to a
continuous struggle that lasted almost three hundred years: The
Arauco War. Continues: The
colony.
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