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Triple Alliance, War of the

(in Russian, Paraguayan War), a war of aggression waged by Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay against Paraguay between 1864 and 1870. Great Britain, France, and the USA—seeking unhindered access for their capital in Paraguay—furthered the unleashing of a war that had long been planned by Brazilian slaveowners and the Argentinian bourgeois landowning elite.

The War of the Triple Alliance was preceded by the intervention of Brazil and Argentina into Uruguay, with Uruguay appealing to Paraguay for assistance. Paraguay feared that it would be isolated from the Atlantic Ocean if Brazil annexed Uruguay’s territory and tried to resolve the Brazil-Uruguay conflict peacefully; however, in November 1864, it was drawn into the war. An alliance was soon formed against Paraguay by Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay; Uruguay joined the alliance after it had been occupied by Brazil.

Until May 1866 the fighting took place in Brazil and Argentina; then the Paraguayans defended themselves on their own territory. The allies defeated the Paraguayan Army at Humaitá (July 1868), Pykysyry (December 1868), and Cêrro Corá (March 1870). Contributing to the allies’ victories were their numerical and technological superiority and the aid of Great Britain, as well as a conspiracy of Paraguayan reactionaries against the national government of F. S. López. The country was occupied by allied troops, approximately one-half of its territory was annexed, four-fifths of the population was wiped out, and power was assumed by reactionary landowners and members of the bourgeoisie linked with foreign capital.

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Whigham presents the definitive work on the Paraguayan War (1864-1870), also known as the War of the Triple Alliance, which forever changed politics in South America.

The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay Versus the Triple Alliance, 1866-70

The Paraguayan War of 1864-70 was one of the most stupid and costly.

History of batty warfare; Weird weaponry, bungled battles and Scilly conflicts

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In a move that neatly reverses Conrad's intermittent critique of liberal historiography in Nostromo, Roa Bastos undermines the leftist interpretation of the Paraguayan War that Moral presents by requiring him to confront the atrocities the Lopez regime perpetrated against Paraguayan citizens as well as foreigners during the final years of the war.

Martin Decoud in the afterlife: a dialogue with Latin American writers

In subsequent chapters, Fabio Faria Mendes extends the study of recruitment processes through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, highlighting the rights and privileges of class, while Vicktor Izecksohn focuses on the problems associated with the recruitment of slaves during the Paraguayan War of 1865-70.

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I Die with My Country: Perspectives on the Paraguayan War, 1864-1870.

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This account of the Paraguayan War is the longest and fullest ever written, and it is destined to remain a standard text for decades.

The Paraguayan War. Volume I. Causes and Early Conflict

While this study covers nearly a century of Brazil's most transformative political experiences (including the Paraguayan War, the end of slavery, the replacement of its monarchy with a republican government, and the emergence of an authoritarian regime that would bring Brazil to fight in the Second World War alongside the Allies), Beattie's principal concern is with the changing social roles played by the Brazilian army.

The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race and Nation in Brazil, 1864-1945

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Latin Americas total war: Peter H. Wilson revisits the War of the Triple Alliance, Latin America's bloodiest conflict

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