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This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Chile from its birth in the first decades of the 19th century to the present. Chilean victory : in case of being an international war or that has an international scope due to the quality of the belligerents.
Arawak woman (John Gabriel Stedman)Early South American military history is distinctively different from that in Asia or Europe. [1] Metallurgy influenced warfare in the Americas less than in other parts of the world; in South America the use of stone, wood and bone, backed by limited use of copper, dominated weaponry up until the European invasions.
The American minister to Chile, General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick and the U.S. naval commander John Rodgers, who was at port commanding a United States Navy squadron composed of the ironclad monitor USS Monadnock and the warships Powhatan, Tuscarora, and Vanderbilt, attempted a last-minute settlement with the Spanish admiral.
Chile actually helped the United Kingdom during the war. The two countries (Chile and Argentina) finally agreed to papal mediation over the Beagle Channel that finally ended in the Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1984 between Chile and Argentina (Tratado de Paz y Amistad). Chilean sovereignty over the islands and Argentinian east of the ...
[36] The economic development that accompanied and followed the war was so remarkable that Marxist writers feel justified in alleging that Chile's great military adventure was instigated by self-seeking capitalists to bring their country out of the business stagnation that had begun in 1878 since the war provided Chile with the economic means ...
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A war between the U.S. and Chile was remotely possible. Chile's foreign minister escalated the tension but in Washington Secretary of State James G. Blaine cooled off the hotheads. The crisis ended when the Chilean government bowed, and while maintaining that the seamen were to blame for the riot paid an indemnity of $75,000 to the victims ...
[5] [6] 1300–1399: Possible date for a Cunco-Huilliche migration to Chiloé Island. [7] [8] Chonos were possibly displaced further such to places like Guaitecas Archipelago. [8] 1420: September 1: a 9.4 M S-strong earthquake shakes Chile's Atacama Region causing tsunamis in Chile as well as Hawaii and Japan. [9] [10] 1471–1493: Unknown