Talk:Joel Roberts Poinsett

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This guy was cool

--- the lack of mentions of his time i Chile is lacking (the called "time in south america"), specially his friendship with Chilean revolutionary Jose Miguel Carrera.

This guy was a intervensionist: he killed the Emperor Agustin by helping the called "liberals", while trying to establish a Republic; and stole the famous Xmas flower from Mexico.


 * Stole? Introduced it to English-speaking people, so it has his name there. Plants often have different names in different areas.

But if you are a deranged anti-American, any stick is good enough to take a whack, I guess

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He did not kill Emperor Iturbide, he overthrew him.

Nochebuena is not translated, as Christmas flower (Nochebuena is Christmas Eve in Spanish), indeed its name is Poinsettia because Poinsett took it to the United States. Wasn't discovered by him. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.143.130.119 (talk) 00:47, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Personal life
Various tidbits of Poinsett's "personal life" are scattered about the article, so the section heading is a bit misleading, but the section (or the article) has a number of omissions. For example, did he have any children? --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 15:17, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

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Incident at the 4th of July 1812 celebration in Santiago
I'm transcribing a manuscript travel journal by William Porter White, an American merchant who had arrived in the River Plate in 1804. In May 1812 he set out from Buenos Aires on horseback and crossed the Andes. The journal has an interesting entry, dated June 17. He left Santiago that day and arrived in Valparaíso, returning on the 26th to Santiago: "I... took rooms at (blank) for the purpose (blank) left them the 5 July in consequence of the American Printers having been brought here who were wounded in our function of the 4th July, & took my old room at James Whiticken." He mentions this again in the July 4th entry: "Dined at the Printers with about twelve Americans in the evening attended a grand ball & supper given by the Consuls, it was the most stylish function that was ever in this City, they were however only about 65 ladies and 100 gentlemen". However, no mention of an incident. Does anybody know what happened that 4th, and who where the Printers? After traveling to Coquimbo, he met Poinsett in Santiago on September 22, who assisted him in obtaining his passport to Buenos Aires, departing on October 3. Alejandro Milberg (talk) 20:33, 7 April 2024 (UTC)