Juan José Pedro Carrera

Juan José Pedro de la Carrera y Verdugo or Juan José Pedro Carrera (Santiago, Captaincy General of Chile, 26 June 1782—Mendoza, United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, 8 April 1818) was a Chilean soldier and patriot who actively participated in the first phase of the Chilean War of Independence, a stage known as the Patria Vieja (Old Homeland).

[citation needed] In the fall of 1814 he remained exiled in Mendoza, by order of the Supreme Director Francisco de la Lastra.

[2] Back in Chile, he participated in a new coup, on 23 July, which overthrew De la Lastra and briefly reinstated José Miguel in supreme command.

[3] At the end of September of the same year, 1814, he assumed command of the Second Division of the patriot army, which was ready to block the passage over the Cachapoal River to the forces of the royalist Mariano Osorio, which was heading to take the capital.

They lived in exile in Mendoza, Argentina, and there, he and his brother Luis participated in the so-called "conspiracy of 1817" against O'Higgins, directed by his sister Javiera Carrera.