Daily Quiz for September 6, 2009

Chile. General Bernado O’Higgins, along with General Jose de San Martin, won Chile’s independence from Spain in the Second War for Chilean Independence. He was the illegitimate son of Ambrosio O’Higgins, a Spanish officer who had been born in Ireland, and Isabel Riquelme, daughter of a member of the Chilian council. He ruled Chile from 1817 to 1823.