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Paperback Andean Tragedy: Fighting the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884 Book

ISBN: 080322799X

ISBN13: 9780803227996

Andean Tragedy: Fighting the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884

(Part of the Studies in War, Society, and the Military Series)

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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 Chile's and Peru's armored warships vying for control of sea lanes and included one of the first examples of the use of naval torpedoes. On land, large armies using the most modern weapons--breech-loading...

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