Regional1939

Battle of River Plate

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

Uruguay

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of River Plate (1939), part of the World War II. United Kingdom defeated Germany.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
Germany

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1939)Third Reich (1939)

Conflict graph

PART OFWorld War II

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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Cite as: Battle of River Plate (1939). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-river-plate · Sources & methodology