• Pisagua may refer to: Pisagua, Chile, which was Pisagua, Peru before 1884. Bombardment of Pisagua, 1879 Pisagua internment camp, Pisagua, Chile The Pisagua...
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  • The Pisagua Case is the name given to the legal actions taken surrounding the crimes that occurred in the torture center and prison camp installed in...
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    Pisagua is a Chilean port on the Pacific Ocean, located in Huara comuna (municipality), in Tarapacá Region, northern Chile. In 2007, the new Tamarugal...
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    The Pisagua internment camp (Spanish: Campamento de Prisioneros de Pisagua) was a concentration camp in Pisagua, Chile. An isolated location in northern...
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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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  • Pisagua Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Pisagua), (ICAO: SCPS) is an airstrip 2 kilometres (1 mi) east of the Pacific coastal village of Pisagua, in the...
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    BAP Pisagua (SS-33) is one of two Type 209/1200 submarines ordered by the Peruvian Navy on 21 March 1977. It was built by the German shipbuilder Howaldtswerke...
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    Pisagua was a four-masted barque that was built for F. Laeisz, Hamburg, Germany in 1892 and served for twenty years, surviving a collision with Oceana...
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    reviewing the terrain and weeks of preparations, it was decided to strike at Pisagua, a small port with a suitable bay for unloading troops and supplies. The...
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    The Bombardment of Pisagua, was an act of arms by Chile on Peru that took place on April 18, 1879, within the framework of the naval operations developed...
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    Pisagua Department was a department in Tarapacá Province, Chile, from 1883 to 1974. It was ceded to Chile under the Treaty of Ancón, formerly being part...
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    India. On 16 March 1912 the ship collided in the Strait of Dover with the Pisagua, a 2,850 GRT German-registered four-masted steel-hulled barque. As a result...
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    Dixon 21 Jan: Fürst Bismarck 2 Feb: HMS Hazard 12 Feb: Grängesberg 12 Mar: Pisagua 14-15 Apr: Californian 17 Apr: Nembo, Turbine 2 Jun: Friendship, Derwent...
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    Dixon 21 Jan: Fürst Bismarck 2 Feb: HMS Hazard 12 Feb: Grängesberg 12 Mar: Pisagua 14-15 Apr: Californian 17 Apr: Nembo, Turbine 2 Jun: Friendship, Derwent...
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    of the country during the saltpetre boom, in the ports of Iquique and Pisagua. The "King of Saltpetre", John Thomas North, was the principal tycoon of...
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    Battle of the Caribbean. From 1943 to 1945, the Chilean prison camp of Pisagua became the site of wartime internment for citizens of enemy nations. Chile...
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    Province Capital Commune Other towns Iquique Iquique Iquique Alto Hospicio Tamarugal Pozo Almonte Huara Pisagua Camiña Colchane Pica Pozo Almonte Mamiña...
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    northwards as planned after the fall of Pisagua, Daza, coming from Arica, decided in Camarones (44 km from Pisagua) to give up his part of the counterattack...
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    Videla government also arrested communist leaders and interned them in the Pisagua prison camp in January 1948. In 1958, after a long parliamentary debate...
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    209/1200 submarines, the BAP Chipana, BAP Angamos, BAP Antofagasta and BAP Pisagua, with a contract with ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems being made for further...
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    sugar. Piscola Blanca, a variation of Piscola in Chile with clear sodas. Pisagua Chilean Pisco with carbonated water. Pischela, another variation of Chilean...
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    cousins (and others sisters, and female cousins)’ Pisabo, also known as Pisagua (Pisahua), is a purported Panoan language spoken by approximately 600 people...
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    barques Pamir, built 1905, capsized and sunk in 1957, 80 died, 6 rescued. Pisagua, built 1892, stranded 1912 South Shetlands Placilla, built 1892, stranded...
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    synopsis (in Spanish, from Website of Peruvian military central command) The Forgotten Heroes The Chilean Navy Battle of Pisagua (Wikipedia: Spanish)...
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    to reconnoitre the surroundings of the only railway line that ran from Pisagua to Agua Santa. The reconnaissance found food stores, fodder, wells and...
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    10 Jan: James T. Staples 15 Jan: Macedonia 8 Feb: Asar-i Tevfik 13 Feb: Pisagua April (unknown date): Hector 11 Jun: General Concha 15 Jun: Paul Palmer...
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    was 3,500 square metres (38,000 sq ft). Placilla was a sister ship to Pisagua, which was launched seven months later than she was. Placilla entered service...
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    of punishment were intended to humiliate the prisoners severely. At the Pisagua Concentration Camp, captors intimidated prisoners by forcing them to crawl...
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    as in the campaign of 1879 in this quarter, with a naval descent upon Pisagua followed by an advance inland to Dolores. The Congressional forces failed...
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    his honor. The navy further distinguished itself during the Battle of Pisagua in 1879, led by both the Navy and the Marine Artillery Groups and Marine...
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