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Born: 1856 (34)
Occupation: Congressman from San Miguel de Tucumán
Background: Chilean-born son of Italian immigrants, escaping from political repression and leaving behind a large family estate and titles, Christiano faced discrimination from childhood to succeed, forcing himself to come out ontop of his peers in everything he did, attempting to ensure a happy and long life in a Chile distrustful towards immigrants. Christiano held several jobs at one time during his teen years, helping to provide for his family (parents, grandparents, 3 brothers, and 5 sisters), before finally joining the army at 17 after a year long waiting period to have his citizenship inspected. Once enlisted, Christiano found an even tougher barrier to overcome due to his lineage, pushing himself even harder and facing increased pressure from his "comrades" and the drill instructors. Such difficulties through his life would allow fate to soon intervene.
After four years of serving as an enlisted soldier in the Army of the North under the hero of the Republic, General Sebastian Roseno, fate finally intervened to allow Christiano's hardships to finally bear fruit. During a live-fire training exercise at company strength, miscommunication amongst the commanding officers occured, and a large instance of friendly fire occured, resulting in not only several direct deaths, but the indirect consequence of a nearby supply depot being fired upon as well, and the depot's supply of ammunition going up in flames and exploding. In the resulting chaos, several higher ranks officers found themselves unable to not only take charge of their troops, but to even yell out comprehensive orders. This was all the chance needed for Christiano. Seeing the inability for the officers to take control of the chaos developing (an indicasion of the things to come during war with Argentina under Andonie), Christiano moved into action, setting to work to quickly put out the fire now raging through the camp's supply stores, leading through example and drawing men to him. The fire was soon under control and burning itself out, and Christiano set to work on the next task. Drawing more men to him, he quickly got the wounded moved into stable positions for the medics to look after. Within an hour after taking charge, Christian had quickly become the center of the new chain of command within the "incident" location, giving orders to men of superior rank and standing and having them obeyed. The Army of the North found itself a new natural leader.
After hearing about the incident, General Sebastian quickly rode out to the scene, and quickly set about finding what exactly had happened. After several conflicting stories, mostly amongst the higher officers attempting to paint themselves in the best light, the lower enlisted men came forward and told Sebastian what really happened. Summoned by the General, Christiano found himself being field promoted, all though the nation was not at war, to the rank of Major of his company, the position that had allowed the incident to occur. Swept with pride, Christiano could do nothing but accept, and walked out amongst the now his troops to cheering at one of
their own now commanding over them.
This new position of leadership would be put to the test, with the resignation of the hero Sebastian, and the disasterous war with Argentina in 1881. Moving through Argentina swiftly, Christiano's command allowed for no deaths and only injuries due to carelessness while on the swift move through the country side. The real test would be at Rosario, where, after an order by Zepeda for a direct charge against a dug in Argentinian defensive force, Christiano lost over 150 of his 225 strong company in the first day alone and becomming wounded himself. Christiano's dead comrades would be but some of the 30,000 cassualties thanks to the ineffective command structure caused by the Andonie administration.
After the so called "Victorious" end of the war, Christiano resigned his position within the army, and moved to San Miguel de Tucumán, recently liberated from Argentinian rule in the war. Helping to rebuild the city after small fighting against its original defenders, Christiano found respect amongst the local population, who took a liking to his non-Chilean, Italian background, winning the mayor's seat in 1885 and the province's Congress seat in 1890. Though disenchanted with Chilean politics after the Andonie disaster, Christiano found a common shared belief with Mateo Sáez, recently returned to the Congresso after years of protest within the wilderness, who he quickly became close friends and ideological allies with.
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