La Frontera (Chile)
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La Frontera is a name used in
Forts and settlements of La Frontera
The first fortress rebuilt following the 1599 destruction of the forts in
17th century
In 1601
In 1602 Ribera rebuilt the small
In 1603 Ribera built
In 1606, Alonso García de Ramón built Fort San Ignacio de la Redención near Boroa but it was abandoned soon after the ambush of most of its garrison.
In 1607 García de Ramón rebuilt Fort Purén and San Jerónimo de Millapoa but as a result of a peace agreement with the Moluche of Catirai he soon dismantled the later.
In 1611 Luis Merlo de la Fuente built fort San Luis de Angol a little to the south of the old city of Angol.
In 1613 Alonso de Ribera built Fort Virguenco in the upper part of the Rehue River and rebuilt the fort at Puren again.
In 1621, Cristóbal de la Cerda y Sotomayor rebuilt the fort of Yumbel the same year it was destroyed. He also built fort San Cristóbal de La Paz and fortified the town around the fort San Bartolomé de Chillán.
In 1622, Pedro Osores de Ulloa built Fort Negrete.
8 March 1626,
In 1637, Francisco Laso de la Vega established fort San Francisco de la Vega near the ruined site of the city of Angol, abandoning fort San Luis de Angol.
In 1641, all the Spanish forts south of the Bio Bio were abandoned under the terms of the Peace of Quilín.
In 1647,
In 1657
In 1661 Governor Porter Casanate built fort
In 1662
In 1663 Paredo rebuilt fort San Cristóbal de La Paz.
In 1665 Francisco de Meneses Brito established fort San Carlos de Virhuenco on the upper Rehue River and rebuilt forts Nacimiento de Nuestro Señor and Puren.
In 1666 Meneses built fort Santa Fe and Fort de la Encarnación in Repucura. He also rebuilt San Carlos de Austria de Yumbel.
In 1693
In 1694 Marín de Poveda restored Fort de la Encarnación and a Mission in Repucura.
In 1695 Marín de Poveda built fort Santo Tomás de Colhué.
18th century
In 1724
In 1739,
In 1749 fort Nacimiento was moved to the present site of the modern town of Nacimiento.
In 1756,
In 1757 Amat y Juniet made Nacimiento a town.
In 1764 Antonio de Guill y Gonzaga established Fort Repucura and a mission at Repucura once again.
In 1777, the then military engineer
In 1788 Governor Ambrosio O'Higgins built Fort Príncipe Carlos on the Duqueco River.
In 1792 the forces of Governor Ambrosio O'Higgins under Tomás de Figueroa took possession of the site of the city of Osorno ruined in 1602, and constructed a fort there. O'Higgins reestablished it as a city in 1796.
See also
Sources
- Diego de Rosales, Historia General del Reino de Chile, Flandes Indiano, 3 tomos. Valparaíso 1877–1878.
- Crescente Errázuriz, Seis años de la historia de Chile: 23 de diciembre de 1598- 9 de abril de 1605: memoria histórica, Impr. Nacional, Sanitiago de Chile, 1881.
- Atlas de Historia de Chile, Editorial Universitaria, ISBN 956-11-1776-2pp. 54–55
- Francisco Solano Asta-Buruaga y Cienfuegos, Diccionario geográfico de la República de Chile, D. Appleton y Compania, Nueva York, 1899