Regional1879

Battle of Tarapaca

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Chile

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Tarapaca (1879), part of the War of the Pacific. Peru defeated Chile.

Belligerents2

Peru
Chile

Conflict graph

PART OFWar of the Pacific

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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