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" A detachment of cavalry was immediately sent under the guidance of this spy, and at day break made prisoner of that great man, but not till after a gallant resistance from ten of his most faithful soldiers, who would not abandon him. His wife, who never... "
The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili - Page 193
by Giovanni Ignazio Molina - 1809 - 385 pages
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The Geographical, Natural and Civil History of Chili, Volumes 1-2

Giovanni Ignazio Molina - 1808 - 694 pages
...resistance from ten of his most faithful soldiers, who would not abandon him. His wife, who never ceased exhorting him to die rather than surrender, on seeing...of countenance, or abatement of his wonted dignity, coolly addressed Reynoso in these words : " My death, general, can answer no possible end, except that...
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The geographical, natural and civil history of Chili, tr. by an American ...

Juan Bautista Ignacio Molina - 1808 - 396 pages
...resistance from ten of his most faithful soldiers, who would not abandon him. His wife, who never ceased exhorting him to die rather than surrender, on seeing...hearing his sentence, Caupolican, without the least 165 change of countenance, or abatement of his wonted dignity, coolly addressed Reynoso in these words...
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature

1810 - 576 pages
...him, till after a desperate resistance by ten of his faithful followers. ' His wife, who never ceased exhorting him to die rather than surrender, on seeing...she would retain nothing that belonged to a coward.* « • « Caupoiican was immediately ordered to be impaled and dispatched \vitli arrow s ; but not...
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Lives of Celebrated American Indians

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1855 - 350 pages
...Spaniards, instantly ordered him to be impaled and shot through. with arrows. On hearing his eentence, Caupolican, without the least change of countenance, or abatement of his wonted dignity of manner, replied to the following purport: " My death will only strengthen the resistance of my coun6*...
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The Classic and the Beautiful from the Literature of Three ..., Volume 3

Henry Coppée - 1900 - 524 pages
...history, the first volume being published in AD 1787, and the second volume four years later. detachment conducted their prisoner to Reynoso, who immediately...of countenance or abatement of his wonted dignity, coolly addressed Reynoso: CAUPOLICAN PLEADS KOR His LIFE. " My death, general, can answer no possible...
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