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The British have been involved at nearly every turn of events in Chilean history since the Spanish Conquest, and not as bystanders but as key players. This is no exaggeration. Even that quintessential hallmark of Britain, the monarchy, has left its stamp on Chile. The history of the British in Chile starts with an English Queen who also held the title of Queen of Chile.
The Byrons of England have had a mysterious sympathy for this land of Chile, whose gate of entrance was called since its conquest “The Valley of Paradise.”
—Benjamin Vicuna Mackenna, The First Britons in Valparaiso 1817–1827
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Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamin. The First Britons in Valparaiso 1817–1827. Valparaiso, Chile: W. Herrmann’s Universo Printing Office, 1884.
Young, Henry Lyon. Baroque Tales of Chile. Ilfracombe, UK: A. H. Stock-well, 1963.
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Edmundson, W. (2009). Introduction. In: A History of the British Presence in Chile. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101210_1
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