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Throughout the period up to Chilean independence, Spain insisted on a monopoly of trade with her colonies in the New World, which, in the particular case of Britain, was stiffened by the state of belligerence that so often existed between the two nations.
The British merchants [were] of material use to the independent cause, by the large importations of arms and stores, both naval and military, which, in spite of every prohibition, they continued to furnish. It is true that sometimes they also supplied the royalists; but in general their cargoes of this nature were for the patriots.
—Maria Graham, Sketch of the History of Chile, 1824
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Edmundson, W. (2009). Commerce and Industry. In: A History of the British Presence in Chile. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101210_9
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