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1836 — 1839 War of the Confederation between the Peru-Bolivian Confederation and Chile; 1851 Chilean Revolution; 1861 — 1883 Occupation of Araucanía; 1864 — 1866 The Chincha Islands War between Spain and former colonies Peru and Chile occurs; 1879 — 1884 Bolivia and Peru fight Chile in the War of the Pacific; 1891 1891 Chilean Civil ...
January 1, 1928 Battle of Las Cruces; February 27, 1928 — February 28, 1928 Battle of El Bramadero; May 13, 1928 — May 14, 1928 Battle of La Flor; December 31, 1930 Battle of Achuapa; September 16, 1932 Battle of Agua Carta; December 26, 1932 Battle of El Sauce; 1926 — 1927 Nicaraguan civil war; 1960 — 1996 Central American crisis
This is a list of conflicts in The Americas.This list includes all present-day countries starting northward first from Northern America (Canada, Greenland, and the United States of America), southward to Middle America (Aridoamerica, Oasisamerica, and Mesoamerica in Mexico; and Central America over Panama, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua), eastward to the ...
It was the deadliest and bloodiest inter-state war in Latin American history. [6] Paraguay sustained large casualties, but even the approximate numbers are disputed. Paraguay was forced to cede disputed territory to Argentina and Brazil. The war began in late 1864, as a result of a conflict between Paraguay and Brazil caused by the Uruguayan ...
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 Guatemalan Civil War was a civil war in Guatemala which was fought from 1960 to 1996 between the government of Guatemala and various leftist rebel groups. The Guatemalan government forces committed genocide against the Maya population of Guatemala during the civil war and there were widespread human rights violations against civilians. [ 15 ]
Northern General Wetzel sent 150 men to restore order in Bagdad that had been occupied by Mexican forces. After learning of the sending of 150 American men to this battle, there was a new protest by the French Admiral Georges Cloué, who demanded the departure of the American forces on January 25.
The Latin American wars of independence may collectively refer to all of these anti-colonial military conflicts during the decolonization of Latin America around the early 19th century: Spanish American wars of independence (1808–1833), multiple related conflicts that resulted in the independence of most of the Spanish Empire's American colonies