Sentence examples for chilean occupation from inspiring English sources
It was involved in the battles of La Palma (a civil war engagement in 1855 that led to Ramón Castilla's victory) and of Miraflores (which led to the Chilean occupation of Lima in 1881).
He also took part in the War of the Pacific (1879 83; it arose between Peru and Chile as a dispute over territory) and during the Chilean occupation courageously protested against the wanton destruction of the famous National Library by Chilean troops.
Among his most prominent descendants must be mentioned his son Mariano Saavedra, twice governor of the Province of Buenos Aires between 1862 and 1865, his grandson Cornelio Saavedra Rodríguez, Chilean military officer in charge of the Occupation of Araucania, and his great-grandson Carlos Saavedra Lamas, politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize for Peace in 1936.
For 350 years after Magellan's voyage, the region was left in the undisputed occupation of its indigenous peoples, the Ona, Yahgan, and Alacaluf Indians, but after 1880 colonization by Chilean and Argentine nationals was sparked by the introduction of sheep farming and the discovery of gold.
A Chilean entrepreneur responds.
Chilean officials seem unconcerned.
3. The Chilean miners' rescue.
Hundreds of Chilean mercenaries, for example, have been deployed by US companies such as Blackwater and Triple Canopy, despite the fact that Chile opposed the invasion and continues to oppose the occupation of Iraq.
Now Chilean courts are investigating.
