01 kol honoring dead Chilean soldiers
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It is believed that this was at the beginning of the ‘War of the Pacific’ (Spanish: Guerra del Pacífico, 1879 – 1884) and that the sculptor was branded a defeatist, or similar, as the sculpture was fashioned at the beginning of that war. Unconfirmed information leads us to believe that it is now located in the Chilean presidential palace.
The standard of the President of Chile
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