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Battle of Curupayty

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Curupayty · Paraguay River · Paraguay

Estimated casualties

4.0K – 9.0Kestimated dead

Allied (Brazilian-Argentine) casualties; Brazilian+Argentine official returns ~4,000, broader estimates up to ~9,000 (c.20% of ~20,000 attackers). Paraguayan losses only ~92.

SOURCEWikipedia / national reports

Fought 22 September 1866 during the War of the Triple Alliance, the Battle of Curupayty was a catastrophic frontal assault by Brazilian and Argentine forces on entrenched Paraguayan positions. The attackers suffered thousands of casualties against negligible Paraguayan losses, stalling the allied advance for nearly a year.

Belligerents2

Triple Alliance (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay)
Paraguay

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Curupayty
Paraguayan War casualties (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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