Andean tragedy : fighting the war of the Pacific, 1879-1884
William F. Sater (Author)
The year 1879 marked the beginning of one of the longest, bloodiest conflicts of nineteenth-century Latin America. The War of the Pacific pitted Peru and Bolivia against Chile in a struggle initiated over a festering border dispute. The conflict saw Chiles and Perus armored warships vying for control of sea lanes and included one of the first examples of the use of naval torpedoes
Military history
1 online resource (442 pages) : plans
9780803207592, 080320759X
154680042
Introduction
The prewar maneuvers
Comparing the armies
Comparing the navies
Chipana to Iquique
Angamos and beyond
The land war begins
The Tacna and Arica campaigns
Investing Lima
The dirty war
Conclusion
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English
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