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Battle of El Potrero

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Honduras

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of El Potrero (1840), part of the Central American National Wars. Honduras defeated El Salvador.

Belligerents2

Honduras
El Salvador

Conflict graph

PART OFCentral American national wars (1823–1907)

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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