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May 17, 2024 · Weapons and Warfare - War of the Triple Alliance, (1864-1870) (May 17, 2024) War of the Triple Alliance, (1864/65–70), the bloodiest conflict in Latin American history, fought between Paraguay and the allied countries of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Paraguay had been involved in boundary and tariff disputes with its more powerful ...
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The war begins
When attacked by Brazil, the Uruguayan Blancos asked for help from Solano López, but Paraguay did not directly come to their allies' aid. Instead, on November 12, 1864, the Paraguayan ship Tacuari captured the Brazilian ship Marquês of Olinda, which had sailed up the Paraguay River to the province of Mato Grosso. Paraguay declared war on Brazil on December 13, and on Argentina three months later, on March 18, 1865. Uruguay, governed by Venancio Flores, aligned itself with Brazil and Argentina...
Paraguayan offensive
During the first phase of the war Paraguaytook the initiative. The armies of López dictated the location of initial battles—invading Brazil’s Mato Grosso in the north in December 1864, Rio Grande do Sulin the southernmost part of Brazil in the first months of 1865, and the Argentine province of Corrientes. Two bodies of Paraguayan troops invaded Mato Grosso simultaneously. Due to the numerical superiority of the invaders the province was captured quickly. Five thousand men, transported in ten...
Brazil reacts
Brazil sent an expedition to fight the invaders in Mato Grosso. A column of 2,780 men led by Colonel Manuel Pedro Drago left Uberaba in Minas Gerais in April 1865, and arrived at Coxim in December after a difficult march of more than two thousand kilometers through four provinces, but Paraguay had abandoned Coxim by December. Drago arrived at Miranda in September 1866, to find that Paraguay had left once again. In January 1867, Colonel Carlos de Morais Camisão assumed command of the column, n...
Command of Count d'Eu
The son-in-law of the emperor Dom Pedro II, Luís Filipe Gastão de Orléans, Count d'Eu, was nominated to direct the final phase of the military operations in Paraguay. He sought not just a total rout of Paraguay, but also the strengthening of the Brazilian Empire. In August 1869, the Triple Alliance installed a provisional government in Asunción headed by Paraguayan Cirilo Antonio Rivarola. Solano López organized the resistance in the mountain range northeast of Asunción. At the head of 21,000...
The Paraguayan people had been fanatically committed to López and the war effort, and as a result they fought to the point of dissolution. Paraguay suffered massive casualties, losing perhaps the majority of its population. The war left it utterly prostrate. The specific numbers of casualties are hotly disputed, but it has been estimated that 300,0...
Following Paraguay's final defeat in 1870, Argentina sought to enforce one of the secret clauses of the Triple Alliance Treaty, according to which Argentina would receive a large part of the Gran Chaco, a Paraguayan region rich in quebracho(a product used in the tanning of leather). The Argentinean negotiators proposed to Brazil that Paraguay shoul...
Country Studies. The War of the Triple Alliance. Retrieved May 24, 2007.Gomes, Carlos de Oliveira. 1980. A solidão segundo Solano López: romance(In Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira.Leuchars, Chris. 2002. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance. Contributions in Military Studies. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313323658.Pernidji, Joseph Eskenazi, and Maurício Eskenazi Pernidji. 2003. Homens e mulheres na Guerra do Paraguai(In Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Imago. ISBN 8531208998.All links retrieved June 5, 2020. 1. Guerra do Paraguai. (Portuguese Language). Meu Artigo. 2. Conhecendo o Portal Sua Pesquisa. (Portuguese Language). Sua Pesquisa.
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The Paraguayan War, also known as the War of the Triple Alliance, was a South American war that lasted from 1864 to 1870. It was fought between Paraguay and the Triple Alliance of Argentina, the Empire of Brazil, and Uruguay. It was the deadliest and bloodiest inter-state war in Latin American history. Paraguay sustained large casualties, but the approximate numbers are disputed. Paraguay was ...
- Paraguayan War, known as the War of the Triple Alliance, was a South American war that lasted from 1864 to 1870. FactSnippet No. 1,324,549.
- The Paraguayan War government was informed of all this and sent to Brazil a message, which stated in part:. FactSnippet No. 1,324,550.
- On 13 April 1865, a Paraguayan War squadron sailed down the Parana River and attacked two Argentine ships in the port of Corrientes. FactSnippet No. 1,324,551.
- Baron of Porto Alegre set out for Uruguaiana, a small town in the province's west, where the Paraguayan War army was besieged by a combined force of Brazilian, Argentine and Uruguayan units.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, considered the official encyclopedic source of the USSR, presented a short view about the Paraguayan War, favorable to the Paraguayan government, claiming that the conflict was a "war of imperialist aggression" long planned by slave-owners and the bourgeois capitalists, waged by Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay under ...
Jun 30, 2014 · Introduction. Between 1864 and 1870 Paraguay engaged in a large-scale war against its neighbors Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. The first military engagements began when Marshal Francisco Solano López captured the Brazilian steamer Marquis de Olinda in 1864, afterward invading the Brazilian territories of Mato Grosso and Rio Grande do Sul as ...
The Paraguayan War, also known as the War of the Triple Alliance, was the largest and most important military conflict in the history of South America, after the Wars of Independence, and its only true 'continental' war. In this blog post, Gabriele Esposito, author of ' The Paraguayan War 1864–70 ', gives a brief overview of the war.
