A long thin colony pinned between the Andes and the Pacific, ruled from Santiago and forever halted at the Bio-Bio by the unconquered Mapuche.
Nominally subordinate to Peru, it declared autonomy in 1810; after royalist reconquest (1814) the patriots won at Chacabuco and Maipu, securing independence in 1818.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Captaincy General of Chile — the shape you scrub through changes in 1541 · 1810 · 1814.
Chile's national history opening with the captaincy general, the Biobío frontier and independence.
Situates the captaincy of Chile within colonial Spanish America (broad context).
The founding epic poem of Chilean literature, an eyewitness account of the Arauco War between Spanish colonists and the Mapuche in the 1550s-60s.
Allende's historical novel of Ines Suarez and Pedro de Valdivia's 1540s conquest and founding of Santiago in Chile — the exact cited book in English.