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    The Battle of La Rinconada de Ate took place during the Lima campaign of the War of the Pacific. The battle occurred a few days before the Battle of San...
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    Mariano Vargas (category People of the War of the Confederation)
    Battle of La Rinconada de Ate. Vargas was born on July 1823 at Lima as the son of Juan Nepomuceno Vargas Guimet and Carmen Quintanilla. Two of his brothers...
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  • took place. Both armies clashed at what became known as the Battle of La Rinconada de Ate, with the Peruvians being defeated and the eastern entrance...
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    Lima campaign (category War of the Pacific)
    division of Barbosa reached Pampa Grande after a march through Pachacamac. Barboza's division faced Vargas's men in the battle of La Rinconada de Ate, achieving...
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    The Battle of Angamos (Spanish: Combate de Angamos) was a naval encounter of the War of the Pacific fought between the navies of Chile and Perú at Punta...
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    The Battle of Tacna, also known as the Battle of the Peak of the Alliance (Spanish: Batalla del Alto de la Alianza), effectively destroyed the Peru-Bolivian...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Iquique
    The Battle of Iquique was a naval engagement on 21 May 1879, during the War of the Pacific, where a Chilean corvette commanded by Arturo Prat Chacón faced...
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    fought the emblematic Battle of La Concepción. The Chileans had to pull back with a loss of 534 soldiers: 154 in combat, 277 of disease and 103 deserters...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of La Concepción
    The Battle of Concepción (Spanish: Batalla de Concepción) was fought between Chilean and Peruvian forces on July 9 and July 10, 1882, during the Sierra...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Los Ángeles
    The Battle of Los Ángeles was a military action fought on 22 March 1880 between the Chilean and Peruvian armies during the Tacna and Arica Campaign of the...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Chipana
    The Battle of Chipana took place on 12 April 1879, during the War of the Pacific between Chile and Peru. It was the first naval engagement between both...
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    The Battle of Arica, also known as Assault and Capture of Cape Arica, was a battle in the War of the Pacific. It was fought on 7 June 1880, between the...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of San Jerónimo
    The Battle of San Jerónimo was the first battle of the Breña campaign of the War of the Pacific between April 9 and 11, 1881. The battle was fought between...
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    The Battle of Sángrar or Combat of Sangra was fought on June 26, 1881, in the Peruvian central Andes, during the Letelier expedition, the first of its...
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    The Battle of Pisagua ("Desembarco y combate de Pisagua"), was a landing operation of the War of the Pacific, fought on November 2, 1879, between Chile...
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  • The Battle of Pucará (Spanish: Batalla de Pucará) was fought on February 5, 1882, during the Sierra Campaign of the War of the Pacific. With a two-to-one...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Miraflores
    The Battle of Miraflores occurred on January 15, 1881 in the Miraflores District of Lima, Peru. It was an important battle during the War of the Pacific...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos
    This battle is really a group of smaller, yet fierce confrontations at the defensive strongholds of Villa, Chorrillos, Santiago de Surco, San Juan de Miraflores...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Río Grande
    The Battle of Río Grande was a minor military engagement that took place on 10 September 1879, during the War of the Pacific. A picket of Chilean soldiers...
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    Las Fuerzas Sútiles y la defensa de costa en la Guerra del Pacífico, Fondo de Publicaciones Dirección de Intereses Marítimos. War of the Pacific v t e v...
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  • Thumbnail for First Battle of Antofagasta
    The First Battle of Antofagasta or the Bombardment of Antofagasta took place during the War of the Pacific. It was the first nightly raid of the War as...
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  • The Battle of Locumba was a battle of the Tacna and Arica campaign of the War of the Pacific that took place on April 1, 1880, between the Chilean cavalry...
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    the battle. Further ground battles would not take place until the war at sea had been completed. "Batalla de Topater: primer enfrentamiento de la guerra...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Tarapacá
    The Battle of Tarapacá occurred on 27 November 1879 during the Tarapacá Campaign of the War of the Pacific. Three Chilean columns of almost 3,900 soldiers...
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    Battle of Tambillo was a battle of the War of the Pacific that occurred on December 6, 1879, between the Bolivian 5th Division under the command of Colonel...
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  • The Second Battle of Iquique was a naval battle of the War of the Pacific that occurred on July 10, 1879. During the battle, the Huáscar faced the 2nd...
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  • Thumbnail for Capture of the corvette Pilcomayo
    The Capture of the corvette Pilcomayo was a battle of the Naval campaign of the War of the Pacific. In the battle, the Peruvian gunboat Pilcomayo was...
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    nearly five months which ended after the Battle of Angamos. Although the Huáscar was seaworthy at the start of the war, she found her guns dismounted and...
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    de la Campaña de Tarapacá. Tomo II. Wikisource has original text related to this article: Parte oficial sobre la captura del Rímac por el capitán de fragata...
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  • Thumbnail for Second Battle of Antofagasta
    The Second Battle of Antofagasta took place during the Naval campaign of the War of the Pacific between the Peruvian ironclad Huáscar against the Chilean...
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