Chile 1000 Pesos

Chile 1000 Pesos 2000 VF
Front: Ignacio Carrera Pinto
Back: "CHILE A SUS HÉROES" ("Chile, to its heroes")

When the War of the Pacific, between Chile, on one side, and Peru and Bolivia on the other, started in 1879, Carrera Pinto enrolled in the "Esmeralda" battalion. During the next years, and as a consequence of his personal merits, he was promoted rapidly. In 1881, he became lieutenant and, in 1882, captain. He participated in the Lima Campaign and in the Sierra Campaign, during which he was killed in the Battle of La Concepción. Read more

Ignacio Carrera Pinto and the Héroes de la Concepción

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Chile

Chile 5 Pesos 1958-59 UNC
Front: General, statesman and liberator of Chile Bernardo O'Higgins (August 20, 1778 - October 24, 1842)
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South American independence leader, was one of the commanders – together with José de San Martín – of the military forces that freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. Although he was the second Supreme Director of Chile (1817–23), O'Higgins was the first holder of this title to head a fully independent Chilean state. Bernardo O'Higgins was born in the Chilean city of Chillán in 1778, the illegitimate son of Ambrosio O'Higgins,[1] Marquis of Osorno, a Spanish officer born in County Sligo in Ireland, who became governor of Chile and later viceroy of Peru. His mother was Isabel Riquelme, a prominent local lady[1] - the daughter of Don Simón Riquelme y Goycolea, a member of the Chillán Cabildo, or council.

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