Ambrosio O'Higgins , 1720?-1801, Spanish colonial administrator, b. Ballinary, Co. Sligo, Ireland. Educated at Cádiz, Spain, under the care of his uncle, who was a Jesuit, he went to South America as a trader. After an adventurous career he so distinguished himself in campaigns against the Araucanians that he was appointed (1789) governor of Chile. He was later made marquis of Osorno and served capably as viceroy (1796-1801) of Peru. Bernardo O'Higgins was his son.
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LETTERS TO THE TRAVEL EDITOR
The Washington Post; 5/19/1991; 529 words;
... George Washington of Chile, Bernardo O'Higgins, merely as a "freedom fighter ... immigrant. Bernardo was the son of Don Ambrosio O'Higgins, viceroy of Peru and the King of ... the west coast of South America. Ambrosio was one of the more successful of ... the Spanish artillery opened up on ...
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Into the unknown -- the Irish in Argentina: the Irish-Americans. The London-Irish. The Hiberno-Australians. The well worn labels that sum up both the paradoxes of Irish emigration and, at times, the uneasy balance between assimilation and the retention of a cultural identity in foreign lands.
World of Hibernia; 12/22/2001; Winn, Jasper; 2058 words;
... Daniel Florence O'Leary. Whilst Bernardo O'Higgins, illegitimate son of Sligo-born Ambrosio O'Higgins, became the harsh, but successful and ... are villages called Murphy, Cavanagh, O'Higgins, Gould and El Trebol (The Shamrock ... trousers. These visits, along with other ...
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Newsweek; 5/5/2003; Moser, Benjamin; 806 words;
... Lynch arrived in Paraguay in 1855, the latest in a long line of Irish--Alejandro O'Reilly, governor of Louisiana; Ambrosio O'Higgins, viceroy of Peru--who had come to rule Spanish America. But as Cawthorne points out, Lynch represented not Ireland ...
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Spurning the British invasion, navigating the flux and saving the cosmos.
The Washington Post; 3/25/2001; 1702 words;
... lesser-known figures: engineer John Ericsson, Southern politician Judah P. Benjamin, and South American dignitary Don Ambrosio O'Higgins among them. He's good at describing outmoded technology as if it were just off the drawing board, and understands ...
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