Printing press arrives at Valparaíso
- When
- 24 November 1811
- Where
- port of Valparaíso, Chile
On 24 November 1811 Mathew Hoevel landed the Galloway at Valparaíso with a printing press, American printers, and arms for the independence movement.
After the Junta's failed attempts to procure a press from Spain and from Buenos Aires, Swedish-American Mathew Hoevel, an idealist for free government, landed the Galloway in the port of Valparaíso on 24 November 1811 carrying a printing press, American printers, and arms and munitions to supply the troops of the independence movement. These printers, including Samuel Burr Johnston, soon set to work publishing the Aurora de Chile.
Sources
- Aurora de Chile Wikipedia, revision of 2026-07-01
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