page_title: List of Chileans
section_title: Military
hierarchical_section_title: List of Chileans / Military
context_page_description: This is a list of Chileans who are famous or notable.
context_section_description: Manuel Baquedano – General of the Chilean Forces during the War of the Pacific
  Philip Bazaar – recipient of the US Navy Medal of Honour
  José Miguel Carrera – first Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army and Independence leader of the Patria Vieja
  Luis Carrera – Chilean Military Officer in the War of Independence
  Caupolicán – leader of the Mapuche who fiercely resisted the Spanish conquest of Chile
  Carlos Condell – captain of the Covadonga ship at the Iquique Naval Combat
  Manuel Contreras – head of Augusto Pinochet's National Intelligence Directorate (DINA)
  Pedro de Valdivia – Royal Governor of Chile and Lieutenant under Francisco Pizarro
  Manuel Rodríguez – Independence leader and guerrilla leader during the Reconquista
  Lautaro – Mapuche indigenous military leader during the Spanish conquest of Chile
  Patricio Lynch – Governor of Lima during the Chilean occupation of Lima, Perú, during the War of the Pacific
  Juan MacKenna – Irish-born organizer of O'Higgins's Army
  Bernardo O'Higgins – founder of modern Chile
  Luis Pardo - also known as Piloto Pardo, Chilean Navy Captain who rescued the survivors of the Shackleton expedition
  Ignacio Carrera Pinto – Captain in charge of the Chilean patrol who died in Battle of La Concepción
  Arturo Prat – captain of the Esmeralda ship at the Iquique Naval Combat; regarded as a national hero
  Eleuterio Ramírez – officer, hero of the War of the Pacific
  José Ignacio Zenteno – Lieutenant Colonel of the Army of the Andes, Minister of War and Marine in the O'Higgins government
caption: Jose Miguel Carrera
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