080918 Britain Ireland and Chile seventeenth century

===080918 Britain, Ireland and Chile: seventeenth century===
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===This is a stub only===
This stub/space is intended for information/articles referring to (any) common history between Britain, Ireland and Chile during the "long" seventeenth century / Chile under the Hapsburgs.
===Was there any/much recorded contact during the seventeenth century?===
Although the Commonwealth Republic of Cromwell became one of the most expansionist periods it is nevertheless with some surprise that a poposal to "colonise" Southern* Chile - from London / from the Jewish diaspora generally* apparently was put to Oliver Cromwell in 1656.
===A colony in Chile===
The background seems to be as follows. Following the earlier diasporic migration of some Jews to Chile (Viceroyalty of Peru), Jews from other countries became interested in the Jewish community in Chile. In London Jews were again permitted rights during the Commonwealth and Simon de Caceres, an ex-Converso based in London, tried get permission from Oliver Cromwell to lead "a military contingent of Jews to conquer uninhabitedThe lands were in fact inhabited by the indigenous Mapuche people lands" in Chile in 1656. 
===Proposal turned down===
Cromwell almost certainly turned down the proposal on the basis that "military contingents" of English were not being all that "successful" in Ireland let alone further afield. Relations with Spain could not be further endangered.
===No other contact in that century?===
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===Reference===
www.olivercromwell.org/jews.pdf
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