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1889 was a pivotal year for Colonel North. This was the year that he became chairman of the Nitrate Railways Company. He had already bought up a controlling interest in the company, in 1887, and had become a company director and deputy chairman in 1888. As we have seen, North’s investment in this railway was assuming quite a risk on his part. President Balmaceda of Chile was moving to break the company’s monopoly in Tarapacá, and if this was successful, North stood to lose heavily.
“You are very clever, Mr. North.”
—Pablo Neruda, Canto General, 1950.1
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William Howard Russell’s reports for The Times on the Crimean War were very influential with the British public and politicians, and contributed to improved conditions for the soldiers and to Florence Nightingale and her nurses being sent out. (See Roger T. Stearn, Russell, Sir William Howard (1820–1907), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). Russell was knighted in 1895.
Salinas Campos et al. (2005, 171), citing the newspaper El Recluta, April 28, 1891.
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Edmundson, W. (2011). A Visit to the Nitrate Kingdom. In: The Nitrate King. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118799_9
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