Website powered by

Galvarino

In an uneven match, the brave Toki Galvarino faced Governor Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza, and his cavalry of 600 riders. When they saw the imminent defeat, the Araucanians began their retreat, but on the battlefield the brave Toki did not step back and continued to fight, soon he was surrounded, and at last he was taken prisoner. The sadistic Spanish governor, as a warning, ordered his hands to be amputated and then let go. But there is no wound that stops the soul of an innate hero and Galvarino, with his wounds still bleeding, he asked to be tied a short spear in each arm and so he presented himself to the battle of Millarapue, where he fought with the devotion of always. Finally he is captured alive and is condemned to die hanged. Galvarino asked to be hung from the highest branch of the tree, he wanted all those who passed by to see that he had made every effort humanly possible to defend the freedom of his country. Still dead, he wanted his corpse to motivate the warriors of his peop