War of the Pacific
Bolivia* Mr.
Eduardo Abaroa †, an engineer, was killed leading a group of civilian defenders at the Battle of Topater
* General
Narciso Campero, military President of Bolivia (1880-1884)
* General
Hilarión Daza, military President of Bolivia (1876-1879)
Chile* General
Manuel Baquedano, commander in chief of the Chilean Army
* Captain
Ignacio Carrera †, killed with the entire garrison at the Battle of La Concepción
* Rear Admiral
Patricio Lynch, military Governor of occupied Peru
* Captain
Arturo Prat †, was killed while boarding
Huáscar at the Battle of Iquique
Peru* Colonel
Francisco Bolognesi †, was killed while leading the defense of the Arica garrison
* General
Andrés Cáceres, led the guerilla war during the occupation of Peru, was elected President of Peru after the war
* Rear Admiral
Miguel Grau †, commander of
Huáscar and widely known as
the knight of the seas, was killed at the
Naval Battle of Angamos* Colonel
Leoncio Prado †, the son of former President
Mariano Ignacio Prado, chose duty as a soldier over an oath not to fight, was captured and executed by a Chilean firing squad after the Battle of Huamachuco
* Colonel
Alfonso Ugarte †, Bolognesi's top lieutenant, was killed during the Battle of Arica, believed to have jumped off a cliff on his horse to save the flag from capture
Other nationalities* Rear Admiral
Abel Bergasse Dupetit-Thouars, French commander, After the Battle of Miraflores, he prevented the destruction and looting of
Lima by threatening to engage and destroy the Chilean Navy with a multinational force under his command
* Colonel
Robert Souper Howard †, British soldier who served in the Chilean Army in nearly every battlefield of the war, was killed at the Battle of San Juan
* Lt. Colonel
Roque Saenz Peña, Argentinian soldier who served in the Peruvian Army during the battles of Tarapaca and Arica, was later elected
President of Argentina*
History of Bolivia*
History of Chile*
History of Peru*
Atacama border dispute*
Tacna-Arica compromise*
War of the Confederation*
Chincha Islands War*
The United States and the Bolivian Seacoast Online book by Bolivian historian and diplomat Jorge Gumucio Granier
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Clear brief account of causes and consequences of the War of the Pacific, 1879-1883.*
La Guerra del Pacífico, Los Héroes Olvidados Chilean site (in Spanish)
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History of Chemical Engineering: Nitrogen, for a brief description nitrates and its strategic importance
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Sin mar… hare 126 años ("Without Sea…for 126 years"); page about the war and its impact on Bolivian society (in Spanish).
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WikiProyecto Guerra del Pacífico (Wikipedia en español)
