Lebian
{{Short description|Pehuenche toqui}}
Lebian (Lebiantu) (died September 1776) was toqui from 1769 to 1774, who led the Pehuenche against the Spanish Empire in Chile following the Mapuche Uprising of 1766 during the Arauco War.
Life
During the war, in 1769 Lebian led a malón against the region of Laja River and Los Ángeles taking cattle and destroying every estancia in their path. Spanish troops sent against him were defeated and forced to retire to Los Ángeles. Encouraged by the victory Lebian attacked fort Santa Bárbara two days later, although repulsed with some losses, they managed to set fire to the town and to take the cattle found in the area.{{cite book |title=Historia Jeneral de Chile Vol. VI |last=Barros Arana |first=Diego |year=1886 |author-link=Diego Barros Arana |publisher=Rafael Jover |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es |page=312 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=otYOAAAAIAAJ&q=Lebian&pg=PA312}}
At the end of the war he was part of the delegation sent to Santiago to make peace in 1774.{{cite book |title=Historia Jeneral de Chile Vol. VI |last=Barros Arana |first=Diego |year=1886 |author-link=Diego Barros Arana |publisher=Rafael Jover |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es |page=324 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=otYOAAAAIAAJ&q=Lebian&pg=PA324}} The same year he was also involved in a feud against the toqui Ayllapagui.{{cite book |title=Historia física y política de Chile (1749-1808) Vol. IV |last=Gay |first=Claudio |year=1848 |author-link=Claudio Gay |publisher=En casa del autor |location=Paris, France |language=es |page=277 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=33sd9vdoKZ4C}}
=Assassination=
In September 1776, according to Gov. Agustín de Jáuregui's policy of rewarding loyalty, Lebian was named distinguished soldier of the Spanish Army, and travelled to the city of Los Angeles for a meeting with the maestre de campo Ambrosio O'Higgins.{{cite book |title=Historia física y política de Chile (1749-1808) Vol. IV |last=Gay |first=Claudio |year=1848 |author-link=Claudio Gay |publisher=En casa del autor |location=Paris, France |language=es |page=283 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=33sd9vdoKZ4C}} As he was returning to his country, a band of Spaniards ambushed and killed him.{{cite book |title=Historia Jeneral de Chile Vol. VI |last=Barros Arana |first=Diego |year=1886 |author-link=Diego Barros Arana |publisher=Rafael Jover |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es |pages=362–363, note 25 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=otYOAAAAIAAJ&q=Lebian&pg=PA362}} One of the suspects was a captain Dionisio Contreras, but nothing was proved against him. It was rumored that O'Higgins had arranged the death as part of a policy of eliminating by such means hostile or strong Mapuche leaders in preference to open warfare, but O'Higgins denied responsibility for the ambush, persecuted the assassins and hanged one of them.{{cite book |title=Historia física y política de Chile (1749-1808) Vol. IV |last=Gay |first=Claudio |year=1848 |author-link=Claudio Gay |publisher=En casa del autor |location=Paris, France |language=es |page=286 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=33sd9vdoKZ4C}}
Additional information
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- {{cite book |last=Barros Arana |first=Diego |author-link=Diego Barros Arana |title=Historia Jeneral de Chile |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lSsOAAAAQAAJ |volume=VI |year=1886 |publisher=Rafael Jover |location=Santiago, Chile |isbn=9780598482341 |language=es }}
- {{cite book |last=Carvallo y Goyeneche |first=Vicente |author-link=Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche |editor=Miguel Luis Amunategui |title=Descripción Histórica y Geografía del Reino de Chile Vol. II (1626 - 1787) |url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/temas/documento_detalle.asp?id=MC0008929 |edition=Instituto Chileno de Cultura Hispánica, Academia Chilena de la Historia |series=Coleccion de historiadores de Chile y documentos relativos a la historia nacional |volume=IX |year=1875 |publisher=Imprenta de La Estrella de Chile |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es |pages=483 }}
- {{cite book |last=Gay |first=Claudio |author-link=Claudio Gay |title=Historia física y política de Chile (1749-1808) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=33sd9vdoKZ4C |volume=IV |year=1848 |publisher=En casa del autor |location=Paris, France |language=es |pages=506 }}
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Category:18th-century Mapuche people
Category:People of the Arauco War
Category:1776 in the Captaincy General of Chile
Category:18th-century indigenous leaders of the Americas
Category:Year of birth unknown
Category:18th-century military personnel
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