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Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna (1831–1886)
Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (vē-kön’yä). A Chilian historian; born in Santiago in 1831; died in Santa Rosa del Colmo, Jan. 25, 1886. In 1870 he acted as war correspondent during the Franco-German war; later as correspondent of the Mercurio in Berlin and Paris. He wrote: ‘The Siege of Chilian in 1813’ (1849); ‘History of Santiago’ (2 vols., 1868); ‘Francisco Moyén; or, What the Inquisition in America Meant’ (1868); several books on the mineral riches of Chili (1883); ‘Album of the Glory of Chili’ (1883); ‘Dolores’ (1883); ‘The Isles of Juan Fernandez’ (1884); ‘At a Gallop’ (1885); ‘The War in Spain’ (1887); and many others.