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In 1809 Juan
Mackenna married Josefina Vicuña y LarraĂn, an eighteen-year-old Chilean woman from a family with revolutionary connections, with whom he had three children: MarĂa del Carmen Dolores, Juan Francisco MarĂa del Tránsito, and FĂ©lix. After the Declaration of Chilean Independence in 1810, he
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