Qualla: Battle of Papudo https://qualla.com/battle-of-papudo 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 Papudo https://qualla.com/battle-of-papudo Battle of Papudo: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-papudo/ The flag was a lie. On the morning of November 26, 1865, a warship flying British colors slid quietly toward the Spanish schooner Virgen de Covadonga in the calm water off Papudo, a fishing village on Chile's central coast. The Spanish captain, Luis Fery, squinted at the approaching vessel and saw nothing alarming - just one of the British gunboats that often patrolled these waters. He was wrong. The ship was the Chilean corvette Esmeralda, and the moment she drew close, her crew hauled down the borrowed ensign, ran up the Chilean flag, and opened fire. The whole engagement would last barely thirty minutes.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/p/battle-of-papudo-wp/66jp-battle-of-papudo-half-an-hour-that-changed-a-war.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Papudo: The Ship That Sailed Into Legend https://qualla.com/battle-of-papudo/ The Covadonga did not return to Spanish hands. She joined the Chilean Navy and fought on, and fourteen years later she sailed into the most storied sea battle in Chilean history - the Battle of Iquique during the War of the Pacific. There, in 1879, Arturo Prat, the young officer ...

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