Qualla: Battle of Agüi https://qualla.com/battle-of-agui en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Agüi https://qualla.com/battle-of-agui Battle of Agüi: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-agui/ William Miller was already in the fight when his reinforcements arrived. On the morning of February 18, 1820, the Englishman-turned-patriot soldier led sixty men up a narrow, broken road on Chiloé's northern tip, charging the Spanish guns of the San Miguel de Agüi fort. Musket fire poured from the walls. Within minutes, thirty-eight of his men lay disabled in the scrub, and Miller himself had taken a ball in the leg. He would have to be carried back to the boats. The last Spanish stronghold in Chile had just repelled its first attack.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/2/e/6/battle-of-agui-wp/62e6-battle-of-ag-i-the-last-royalist-corner.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Agüi: Sixty Men on a Broken Road https://qualla.com/battle-of-agui/ The terrain favored the defenders absolutely. The approach to the fort ran along a single rough track, too narrow for a broad advance, hemmed in by rock and forest. When Spanish commander Saturino García rushed to reinforce the garrison, Miller sensed the window closing and order...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/2/e/6/battle-of-agui-wp/62e6-battle-of-ag-i-sixty-men-on-a-broken-road.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Agüi: A Gunboat on the Flank https://qualla.com/battle-of-agui/ Just as Eréscano pressed his attack, the situation turned worse. Governor Quintanilla had dispatched a gunboat from San Carlos, and now it came around to rake the patriot column from the side. Caught between the fort's guns ahead and naval fire on the flank, the Chileans could no...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/2/e/6/battle-of-agui-wp/62e6-battle-of-ag-i-a-gunboat-on-the-flank.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Agüi: Down Huechucucuy Beach https://qualla.com/battle-of-agui/ The retreat ended on the sand. The patriot column marched down Huechucucuy Beach to the cove where their ships lay anchored, carrying their wounded with them. At the shoreline the Spanish pursuit simply stopped, perhaps fearing that the small landing party was the advance guard o...

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