Bernardo O’Higgins, to the Chilean Assembly
O’HIGGINS
The name of O’Higgins ... has a double lustre; because it was borne by two generations with an almost equal brilliancy. It is seldom that a genius such as Ambrose O’Higgins the father, the greatest Viceroy of royalist Spanish America, bears a man such as Bernardo O’Higgins the son, first chief of the new Republic which sprang up from the ashes of his dead father’s Government.
W. H. KOEBEL
Bernardo O’Higgins alone was able to accomplish and establish the semblance of decent dignified government in his Country after the great upheaval, a fact mostly due to his own transparent honesty, utter unselfishness, and pure Patriotism, as much as to his political acumen, diplomacy, and powers of organization.
John J. Mehegan
Bernardo O’Higgins was born August 20, 1778 Became the Hero of Rancagua, 1814
He and San Martin won the Battle of Chacabuco, February 12, 1817
First Independence Day in Chile, February 12, 1818