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    The First Chilean Navy Squadron was the heterogeneous naval force that terminated Spanish colonial rule in the Pacific and protagonized the most important...
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  • Montezuma became Moctezuma and served as a sloop of the First Chilean Navy Squadron. The Chilean Navy sold her in 1828 and she returned to mercantile service...
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    Águila was the first naval vessel of the Chilean Navy. She was later renamed Pueyrredón. She was the old US-smuggler Eagle, a 220-ton brig with sixteen...
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    in Port Mahón, Balearic Islands in 1791 for the Spanish Navy. The First Chilean Navy Squadron, under the command of Thomas Cochrane, captured her on the...
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    First Chilean Navy Squadron. The ship was built in 1817 in the United States as Columbus. In November 1817 she was sent by the envoy of the Chilean government...
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    Historical Review, Volume 27, 1947, pp. 204-219 First Chilean Navy Squadron List of decommissioned ships of the Chilean Navy [1] Painting of the AVON...
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    of Peru. There the First Chilean Navy Squadron, under the command of Manuel Blanco Encalada, captured her at Talcahuano. The Chileans renamed the ship O'Higgins...
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  • Independencia was a 26-gun corvette of the First Chilean Navy Squadron. The 851-ton ship was built in 1818 at the Forman Cheeseman Shipyard of New York...
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  • later Milagro. On 24 July 1824 Commander Thomas Crosby of the First Chilean Navy Squadron captured the Spanish ships Milagro, (property of Vicente Benito...
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    of the First Chilean Navy Squadron by a decree of Ramón Freire on 2 April 1826, Aquiles was for a long time the only ship of the Chilean Navy. 1828, under...
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