Departure of the First Chilean Navy Squadron on 9 October 1818, Thomas Somerscales
Active
1817–1826
Country
Chile
Branch
Chilean Navy
Type
Navy
Role
Naval warfare
Engagements
Spanish American wars of independence
Commanders
Supreme commander
Bernardo O'Higgins Ramón Freire
Fleet commander
Manuel Encalada Thomas Cochrane
Insignia
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Military unit
The First Chilean Navy Squadron was the heterogeneous naval force that terminated Spanish colonial rule in the Pacific and protagonized the most important naval actions of in the Latin American wars of independence.[1] The Chilean revolutionary government organized the squadron in order to carry the war to the Viceroyalty of Perú, then the center of Spanish power in South America, and thus secure the independence of Chile and Argentina.
^Georg von Rauch, Conflict in the Southern Cone, ISBN 0-275-96347-0, Praeger publishers, 1999, page 143
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