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Mateo Arnaldo Hoevel was a prominent Swedish-American Chilean revolutionary, merchant, and dissident against the Swedish monarchy. Hoevel was a Swedish native, but after his involvement in the assassination of the Swedish king Gustav III, he fled to the United States. He became an New York merchant involved in international trade and was naturalized a US citizen after 1804. A supported of the French Revolution, Hoevel's ideals spurred him to join the revolutionaries in Chile, where he had business interests. He is most known as the merchant who supplied, in late 1811, the junta with Chile's first printing press, seen as an instrument of revolution. That same year, Hoevel was made a citizen of Chile. In April 1812, he was appointed a US Consul in Chile by Joel Pointsett. He later became an officer in the revolutionary Chilean military, and fought at the Battle of Rancagua, where he was captured and made a prisoner on the Juan Fernandez Islands until the royalist forces were driven out in 1817. Subsequently, Hoevel served as the chief of Santiago's police. In 1819, shortly before his death, he was involved in the preparations for San Martín's expedition to free Peru.

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 * Imprisoned by Spanish during reconquista.
 * Imprisoned by Spanish during reconquista.


 * Helped teach Camil Henríquez English by translating English newspapers.
 * Helped teach Camil Henríquez English by translating English newspapers.


 * Hoevel was a "Swedish refugee involved in the assassination of Gustave III"
 * Hoevel was a "Swedish refugee involved in the assassination of Gustave III"
 * Hoevel was a "Swedish refugee involved in the assassination of Gustave III"