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Friday, January 1, 2016

War of the Pacific (1879–1884)

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Ignacio Carrera Pinto and other Chilean soldiers in Concepción PRINCIPAL COMBATANTS: Chile vs. Bolivia and Peru PRINCIPAL THEATER(S):...
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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Chincha Islands War

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The Chincha islands of Peru, being occupied by Spanish sailors on April 14, 1864. The Chincha Islands War (Spanish: Guerra hispano-s...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

The Nitrate King: A Biography of "Colonel" John Thomas North (Studies of the Americas)

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The first book-length biography of John Thomas North (1842-1896), known as 'Colonel North' in Britain and throughout the world a...

ROYAL NAVY AND THE PERUVIAN-CHILEAN WAR 1879 - 1881, THE: Rudolf de Lisle's Diaries and Watercolors

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Gerard de Lisle This beautifully presented book captures the spirit of a little known war where the Royal Navy played a peripheral but...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

WAR OF THE PACIFIC

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From 1874 to 1879, the South American nation of Chile experienced a depression caused by falling copper and wheat prices, a dropping off o...
Monday, June 14, 2010

The Ten Centavos War

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The War of the Pacific was popularly dubbed the “Ten Centavos (cents) War.” In 1877, after a devastating tidal wave destroyed much of the p...

Bolivia - On the Eve of the Great Pacific War

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No war breaks out over guano, of which little remains. It is saltpeter that throws the Chilean army into the conquest of the deserts, agains...
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