On February 8, 1817, Jose de San Martin, Bernardo O’Higgins, and their army completed their heroic twenty-one day journey across the Andes Mountains from Argentina to Chile. The freedom-fighters were determined to liberate Chile from royalist Spanish rule. Casualties were terribly high; one-third of the 4,000 men that Martin commanded perished during the journey. El… Continue reading Bernardo O’Higgins, Freedom Fighter 1817