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In 1818, Chilean leader Bernardo O'Higgins commissioned British naval officer Thomas Cochrane to lead the Chilean Navy. Did O'Higgins' Irish heritage and Cochrane's Scottish descent factor into the two men's relationship at all?

by /u/Limin8tor in /r/AskHistorians

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