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Chilean Civil War of 1891

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Pisagua · Concon · Placilla · Valparaiso · Chile

Estimated casualties

5.0K – 10Kestimated dead

Commonly estimated 5,000-10,000 dead in the eight-month war; the battles of Concon and Placilla were especially bloody.

SOURCEClodfelter / standard estimates

A 1891 civil war pitting the Chilean Congress and Navy against President Jose Manuel Balmaceda and the Army. After the bloody battles of Concon and Placilla, the Congressionalists triumphed and Balmaceda committed suicide, reshaping Chile's political system toward parliamentary rule.

Belligerents2

Congressionalists (Chilean Navy)
Balmacedists (Chilean Army / President Balmaceda)

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 5

Sources

Wikipedia: Chilean Civil War of 1891
Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts (4th ed., 2017)
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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