Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán (Chillán Viejo

Chillán Viejo

Chillán Viejo is a city and commune in the Ñuble Province of Chile's eighth region of Biobío . According to the 2002 census, the population of the commune was 22,084 and it has an area of .-History:...

, Biobío Region, Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

 1607 - † 1682) Chilean writer and soldier. In 1629 he participated in an expedition to defeat the Mapuche

Mapuche

The Mapuche are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina. They constitute a wide-ranging ethnicity composed of various groups who shared a common social, religious and economic structure, as well as a common linguistic heritage. Their influence extended...

, but, during the Battle of Las Cangrejeras, he was taken prisoner by the cacique

Cacique

Cacique is a title derived from the Taíno word for the pre-Columbian chiefs or leaders of tribes in the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles...

 Maulicán, who kept him captive for seven months. After being released, he rose through the ranks to become commander of the fort of Boroa

Boroa

Boroa, is a town in Araucanía, Chile on the shores of Cautín River. The region near the town south of the Cautin River between the Boroa and Quepe Rivers was the Moluche aillarehue of Boroa...

 in 1654, and he was eventually appointed Maestro de Campo

Maestro de Campo

Maestro de Campo was a rank created in 1534 by the Emperor Carlos V, inferior in rank only to the Capitán General and acted as a chief of staff. He was chosen by the monarch in the Council of State, and commanded a tercio. Their powers were similar to those of the old Marshals of the Kingdom of...

 in 1656 by Governor of Chile Pedro Porter Casanate

Pedro Porter Casanate

Admiral Pedro Porter y Casanate was a Spanish sailor, soldier, explorer of California and Royal Governor of Chile from 1656 to 1662.-Early life:...

 and had an important role in the Spanish victory in Conuco and the relief of the fort of Boroa

Boroa

Boroa, is a town in Araucanía, Chile on the shores of Cautín River. The region near the town south of the Cautin River between the Boroa and Quepe Rivers was the Moluche aillarehue of Boroa...

. From his experiences among the Mapuches, he wrote in 1673, the chronicle Cautiverio feliz y razón individual de las guerras dilatadas del reino de Chile (Happy Captivity and Reason for the Prolonged Wars of the Kingdom of Chile), which constitutes one of the most important and realistic descriptions of the customs of the Mapuche people, as well as containing a defense of their rights.

Source

• José Toribio Medina
  José Toribio Medina
  José Toribio Medina Zavala was a Chilean bibliographer, prolific writer, and historian. He was of Basque descent.-Biography:...
  
  , Diccionario biográfico colonial de Chile, Impr. Elziviriana, Santiago, 1906 Pg. 577-586.
• Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán, http://books.google.com/books?id=f3ACAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=0_0#PPP23,M1 CAUTIVERIO FELIZ, Y RAZÓN DE LAS GUERRAS DILATADAS DE CHILE, Coleccíon de historiadores de Chile y documentos relativos a la historia nacional, Tomo III, Sociedad Chilena de Historia y Geografía, Instituto Chileno de Cultura Hispánica, Academia Chilena de la Historia, Imprenta del Ferrocarril, Santiago, 1863. Original from Harvard University, Digitized May 19, 2007].