Regional1927

Battle of Sorpresa

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

Paraguay

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Sorpresa (1927). Bolivia defeated Paraguay. A border incident preceding the Chaco War.

Belligerents2

Bolivia
Paraguay

Sources

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

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1927 and opens this record.

Cite as: Battle of Sorpresa (1927). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-sorpresa · Sources & methodology