TLS in German, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 8.75 x 11.25, July 2, 1910. Letter to the president of Chile, in part (translated): “In celebration of the hundred-year anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, I bring you, Mr. President, and the Chilean people, my personal congratulations and those of the German people. From year to year shining in glittering development, your beautiful country, thanks to the untiring work of its inhabitants, has taken a powerful upturn…With justifiable pride it can look today as a warlike military power, which is trained according to strict husbandry…It is most satisfying for me and my army that German officers have been privileged to educate the brave Chilean army through their teachings and examples, their knowledge and experience…I have, therefore, sent the General of the Hanoverian Ulaned Regiment, Curt von Pfuel, who has acquired outstanding merit for the military education of my army. I have gladly instructed him, as a representative of the German military power, to convey to the Chilean army the warmest greetings of their German comrades, and their best wishes for further blossoming and prosperity. Aroused by the profound wish that the glorious past of Chile may be a glimmering and happy future, I express the hope that the friendly relations which have always existed between our leaders and peoples, are becoming ever stronger.” In fine condition, with binding holes and mounting remnants along left edge. Chile’s military long had ties to Germany, having imported European tactics with the hire of the German officer Emil Korner in the mid-1880s. Korner successfully suppressed the Chilean revolt of 1891, and wrote home to the kaiser to boast of the superiority of ‘great old Prussian traditions on the far shores of the Pacific Ocean.’ A remarkable letter connecting the militaries of two international powers. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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