Crossword-Solution: ITATA 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The Itata, an armed vessel commanded by a naval officer of the insurgent fleet, manned by its sailors and with soldiers on board, was seized under process of the United States court at San Diego, Cal., for a violation of our neutrality laws.

While Chilean affairs were in this strained condition, the revolutionists sent a vessel, the _Itata_, to San Diego in California for military supplies, and American authorities seized it for violating the neutrality laws.

While these events were passing on the banks of the Biobio, an Araucanian officer named Lillemu, who had been detached by Antiguenu to lay waste the provinces of Chillan and Itata, defeated a Spanish detachment of eighty men commanded by Pedro Balsa.

Accordingly, on the 9th of March 1723, the day previously fixed upon for the commencement of hostilities, fires were lighted up on the mountains of Copaipo, Coquimbo, Quillota, Rancagua, Maule, and Itata.

Chili also bought from the Pacific Steam Navigation Company the screw steamer _Amazonas_, for use as a transport; and by chartering the _Rimac, Itata, Lamar, Loa_, and _Limari_ from the Chilian Steam Navigation Company, and the _Mathias Cousino_ and other steamers from the Cousino estate, she strengthened the effectiveness of her fleet to a very great extent.