Marcas de guerra. La Ley de Recompensas Militares y el surgimiento de la identidad entre los inválidos y veteranos de la Guerra del Pacífico, 1881-1905

Summary

This article analyzes the emergence of the identity among Chilean’s disabled from the war of the Pacific. It studies the promulgation and the application of the Law of Military Compensations of 1881, that gave pensions to incapacitated soldiers by establishing a typology of disability. It speculates that, that legislation first influenced the formation of identities among disabled veterans, and after among uninjured veterans through the founding of mutual societies. The accumulation of shared historical experiences articulated a common political praxis that permitted the inclusion of veterans in the political and bureaucratic stage, giving form to a reclamation movement during the period of 1901-1905.