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At the Battle of Tuyutí (May 24, 1866, ironically the date of his birthday), Sampaio was seriously injured three times by artillery shrapnel, gangrenizing his right thigh, and twice on his back. Evacuated from the battlefield, he died on board the steam ship Eponina , which was taking him to Buenos Aires .
The Battle of Tuyutí was an engagement during the Paraguayan War (1864–1870) between Paraguay and the Triple Alliance of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. It was fought on May 24, 1866, with the forces aligned as follows: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Paraguayan War; From top, left to right: the Battle of Riachuelo (1865), the Battle of Tuyutí (1866), the Battle of Curupayty (1866), the Battle of Avay (1868), the Battle of Lomas Valentinas (1868), the Battle of Acosta Ñu (1869), the Palacio de los López during the occupation of Asunción (1869), and Paraguayan war prisoners (c. 1870)
The Battle of Tuyutí in 1866 was the biggest battle ever fought in South America and the deadliest day in the Americas history. [1] The smaller Second Battle of Tuyutí was also fought there. The ground is sandy, surrounded by flooded terrain, with rocks with more than 2 meters high.
Battle of the Riachuelo – 11 June 1865; Battle of Paso de Mercedes - 11 August 1865; Battle of Paso de Cuevas - 12 August 1865; Battle of Yatay – 17 August 1865; Battle of Pehuajó or Corrales or Itati - 31 January 1866; Battle of Estero Bellaco – 2 May 1866; Battle of Tuyutí or Tuiutí – 24 May 1866; Siege of Uruguaiana or Uruguayana ...
In August 1866 the Polish engineer Robert Adolf Chodasiewicz of the Argentine army, who had acquired his skills in the Crimean War, had made a preliminary map of the area south of Humaitá; he did so by triangulating from three mangrullos. [102] Chodasiewicz added further refinements after the battle of Curupayty.
From the mouth of the Paraguay River in the Paraná to Humaitá, there was less than 30 km. The strip of land corresponding to that section, with a maximum width of 20 km, would be the battlefield for 2 years and 4 months. With the exception of some other battles in Mato Grosso, all the battles of the period took place in that narrow territory.
Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia [A]), the District of Columbia, and six territories (Arizona ...