Alonso García de Ramón Alonso García de Ramón ( c . 1552 – August 5 , 1610 ) was a Spanish soldier and twice Royal Governor of Chile : first temporarily from July 1600 to February 1601 , and then from March 1605 to August 1610 . He was born in Cuenca , Spain in 1552 . Early life . He served from the age of 16 in the Spanish Army first against the Morisco revolt in Granada . Then he was in Italy and Sicily , where he was cabo de escuadra , in the squadron of Juan of Austria in the 1572 battle of Navarino following the battle of Lepanto . Then in 1574 , he was in the garrison of Goleta during the campaign of Juan of Austria in Tunis . In 1576 he survived under Alvaro de Bazan , Marquess of Santa Cruz in the Battle of Querquenes at the Kerkennah Islands . He next went to Flanders as a sergeant under Alexander Farnese , Duke of Parma . He was in the assault of the city of Sichen , the attack of Bourgerhoutum and the siege and assault of Maestricht where he was of the first that mounted the walls ; twice wounded taking two flags , for which the awarded twelve ducados by the Duke . Military Service in Chile and Peru . He returned to Spain and then went to Chile , fighting with skill and bravery for Governor Alonso de Sotomayor against the Mapuche . His most famous action was at the siege of Puren where he killed the Toqui Cadeguala in mounted single combat . Soon after Martín García Óñez de Loyola replaced Sotomayor , García de Ramón moved to Peru , and earned the confidence of the Viceroy of Peru , García Hurtado de Mendoza , 5th Marquis of Cañete who entrusted him with many positions , that he carried out with brilliance including those of corregidor of Arica and Potosí . From 1599 , when Francisco de Quiñónez was sent to Chile , he was Maestro de Campo of all Peru and was one of the most trusted military advisors of Viceroy , Luis de Velasco . First Governorship of Chile . García de Ramón was sent to relieve Francisco de Quiñónez as interim governor arriving in Chile on July 29 , 1600 . He arrived in Santiago the next day and was installed as governor . He soon discovered things were worse in southern Chile than he had known in Peru , La Imperial had been lost in April . Without reinforcements from Peru he was forced to extract men , arms and supplies from the cities of Chile by means of imposing extraordinary contributions , special taxes , and confiscating cattle , horses , saddles and arms that allowed him quickly form a well equipped army of 400 men by December 1600 . By early January , his army had marched to Chillán where he was forced to leave a detachment to prevent Mapuche incursions above the Itata River . He moved on to Concepcion where he planned to relieve the remaining besieged fort Valdivia and cities of Villarica , and Osorno . His attempt to send aid by ship to Valdivia and Chiloé failed when the ship was stolen by deserters from the army fleeing Chile for Peru . Unwilling to give up he planned to advance south via the central valley , to Angol , Purén and Lumaco , to aid Villarrica , and on to Osorno in the south linking up with Francisco del Campo advancing from fort Valdivia . However , he and 310 men had not advanced further than Quillacoya when he had word that Arauco was now under siege and required relief . He had turned back to go to its aid when he was informed that Alonso de Ribera had arrived to assume the governorship in February 1601 . Second Governorship of Chile . Appointed in 1605 to replace Alonso de Ribera as Governor of Chile , he used the base of forts established by his predecessor as bases for his campaigns against the Mapuche . In 1606 , the Spanish forces of Garcia Ramon fought the Mapuche army under the caciques Ainavilu , Anganamen , Pelantaru and Longoñongo in the Battle of Boroa . Approximately 500 Spaniards , defeated 6 , 000 Mapuches . García de Ramón then built Fort San Ignacio de la Redención near Boroa but it was soon abandoned after the ambush of most of its garrison . In 1607 , García de Ramón rebuilt Fort Purén and San Jerónimo de Millapoa in Catirai but as a result of the Parliament of Catirai he soon dismantled the later .