The Chilean government in Santiago has consolidated…

The Chilean government in Santiago has consolidated its position in the south by persistently suppressing the Mapuche during the Occupation of the Araucanía toward the end of the nineteenth century.

From 1871 to 1879, Basilio Urrutia has been left in charge of the occupation, which has by now been consolidated up to the Malleco River.

On the north side of that river, the army has established a line defended by twenty-five hundred soldiers and served by a telegraph line between Angol and ...