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Battle of Tucapel

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Arauco · Chile

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Mapuche victory under Lautaro against Spanish governor Pedro de Valdivia. This battle galvanized indigenous resistance in the Arauco region.

Belligerents2

Spanish Empire
Mapuche people

ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Tucapel (1553). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/americas-battle-tucapel-1553 · Sources & methodology