<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e576d91d-9419-4237-995c-4e6c033156d5/6BC58E9F-ADE1-4E5D-AE09-68D2394E8A05/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pedro_de_Valdivia&oldid=297933593" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pedro_de_Valdivia&oldid=297933593" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pedro_de_Valdivia&oldid=297933593"><P><B>Pedro Gutiérrez de Valdivia</B> (c.1500 - December 25, 1553) was a <A title="Spain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain">Spanish</A> <A title="Conquistador" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquistador">conquistador</A> and the first royal governor of <A title="Chile" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile">Chile</A>. After serving with the Spanish army in Italy and Flanders, he was sent to South America in 1534, where he served under Francisco Pizarro in Peru. In 1540 he led an expedition of 150 Spaniards into Chile, where he defeated a large force of Indians and founded <A title="Santiago, Chile" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago,_Chile">Santiago</A> in 1541. He extended Spanish rule south to the Bío-Bío River in 1546, fought again in Peru (1546 – 48), and returned to Chile as governor in 1549. He began to conquer Chile south of the Bío-Bío and founded <A title="Concepción, Chile" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concepci%C3%B3n,_Chile">Concepción</A> in 1550. He was killed in a campaign against the Araucanian Indians.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pedro_de_Valdivia&oldid=297933593"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/14B40448-F4C5-4D6C-A846-9C054275FCCA" alt="Pedro de Valdivia" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6BC58E9F-ADE1-4E5D-AE09-68D2394E8A05/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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