The War In Paraguay

Author : Thomas Whigham
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803247869

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The Paraguayan War: Causes and early conduct by Thomas Whigham Pdf

The Paraguayan War (1864?70) was the deadliest and most extensive interstate war ever fought in Latin America. The conflict involving Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil killed hundreds of thousands of people and had dire consequences for the Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano L¢pez and his nation. Though the Paraguayan War stirs the same emotions in South Americans as does the Civil War in the United States, there have been few significant investigations of the war available in English. In this first of two volumes, Thomas L. Whigham provides an engrossing and comprehensive account of the war's origins and early campaigns, and he guides the reader through the complexities of South American nationalism, military development, and political intrigue. Whigham portrays the conflict as bloody and inexcusable, though it paved the way for more modern societies in the continent. The Paraguayan War fills an important gap in our understanding of Latin American history.

Author : Hendrik Kraay,Thomas Whigham
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803227620

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I Die with My Country by Hendrik Kraay,Thomas Whigham Pdf

The Paraguayan War (1864?70) was the most extensive and profound interstate war ever fought in South America. It directly involved the four countries of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay and took the lives of hundreds of thousands, combatants and noncombatants alike. While the war still stirs emotions on the southern continent, until today few scholars from outside the region have taken on the daunting task of analyzing the conflict. In this compilation of ten essays, historians from Canada, the United States, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay address its many tragic complexities. Each scholar examines a particular facet of the war, including military mobilization, home-front activities, the war?s effects on political culture, war photography, draft resistance, race issues, state formation, and the role of women in the war. The editors? introduction provides a balance to the many perspectives collected here while simultaneously integrating them into a comprehensible whole, thus making the book a compelling read for social historians and military buffs alike.

Author : George Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Paraguay
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011556099

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The War in Paraguay by George Thompson Pdf

Author : Gabriele Esposito
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472834416

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The Paraguayan War 1864–70 by Gabriele Esposito Pdf

The Paraguayan War, also known as the War of the Triple Alliance, was the largest and most important military conflict in the history of South America, after the Wars of Independence, and its only true 'continental' war. It involved four countries and lasted for more than five years, during which Paraguay fought alone against a powerful alliance formed by Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. This conflict was remarkable in its huge scale and its terrible cost in lives, with the catastrophic human price paid by Paraguay amounting to more than 300,000 men, a loss of some 70% of the country's total population. The war was a real revolution for the armies of South America, and the first truly modern conflict of the continent. When the war began in 1864, the armies were small, poorly trained and badly equipped semi-professional forces. However, by the time the war ended, most of them had adopted percussion rifles employing the Minié system and new weapons like breech-loading rifles and Gatling machine guns were being tested on the continent for the first time. This title covers the whole span of the war, from the early days when the conflict primarily involved small columns of a few thousand men seeking each other out in rugged and sparsely inhabited territory, through to the later Napoleonic-style positional battles fought at points of strategic importance. It also explores the unique challenges presented by the humid, subtropical climate, including the devastating impact of disease on the troops.

Author : George Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Paraguayan War, 1865-1870
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010287345

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The War in Paraguay by George Thompson Pdf

Author : Leslie Bethell
Publisher : University of London Press
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173006230460

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The Paraguayan War (1864-1870) by Leslie Bethell Pdf

Author : Christopher Leuchars
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313076855

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To the Bitter End by Christopher Leuchars Pdf

The War of the Triple Alliance was one of the longest, least remembered, and, for one of its participants, most catastrophic conflicts of the 19th century. The decision of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay to go to war against Paraguay in May 1965 has generally been regarded as a response to the raids by the headstrong and tyrannical dictator, Francisco Solano Lopez. While there is some truth to this view, as Lopez had attacked towns in Argentina and Brazil, the terms of the Triple Alliance signed that same month reveal that the motivation of these two nations, at least, was to redraw the map in their favor, at the expense of Paraguay. That the resulting conflict lasted five years before Lopez was defeated and his country fully at the mercy of its neighbors was a tribute to the heroic resistance of his people, as well as to the inadequacies of the allied command. The military campaigns, which took place on land and on the rivers, often in appalling conditions of both climate and terrain, are examined from a strategic perspective, as well as through the experiences of ordinary soldiers. Leuchars looks in detail at the political causes, the course of the conflict as viewed from both sides, and the tragic aftermath. He brings to light an episode that, for all its subsequent obscurity, marked a turning point in the development of South American international relations.

Author : Thomas L. Whigham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : International relations
ISBN : 1773854275

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The Road to Armageddon by Thomas L. Whigham Pdf

In 1864 the capture of Brazilian steamer the Marquês de Olinda initiated South America's most significant war. Thousands of Brazilian, Argentine, and Uruguayan soldiers engaged in a protracted siege of Paraguay, leaving the Paraguayan economy and population devastated. The suffering defied imagination and left a tradition of bad feelings, changing politics in South America forever. This is the definitive work on the Triple Alliance War. Thomas L. Whigham examines key personalities and military engagements while exploring the effects of the conflict on individuals, Paraguayan society, and the continent as a whole. The Road to Armageddon is the first book utilize a broad range of primary sources and materials, including testimony from the men and women who witnessed the war first-hand.

Author : Paraguay. President (1862-1870 : López),Argentina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Paraguayan War, 1865-1870
ISBN : HARVARD:HWC279

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The War in Paraguay by Paraguay. President (1862-1870 : López),Argentina Pdf

Author : Pelham Horton Box
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Paraguayan War, 1865-1870
ISBN : UCAL:B3865778

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The Origins of the Paraguayan War by Pelham Horton Box Pdf

Author : Esther Breithoff
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787358065

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Conflict, Heritage and World-Making in the Chaco by Esther Breithoff Pdf

Conflict, Heritage and World-Making in the Chaco documents and interprets the physical remains and afterlives of the Chaco War (1932–35) – known as South America’s first ‘modern’ armed conflict – in what is now present-day Paraguay. It focuses not only on archaeological remains as conventionally understood, but takes an ontological approach to heterogeneous assemblages of objects, texts, practices and landscapes shaped by industrial war and people’s past and present engagements with them. These assemblages could be understood to constitute a ‘dark heritage’, the debris of a failed modernity. Yet it is clear that they are not simply dead memorials to this bloody war, but have been, and continue to be active in making, unmaking and remaking worlds – both for the participants and spectators of the war itself, as well as those who continue to occupy and live amongst the vast accretions of war matériel which persist in the present.

Author : Gabriele Esposito
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472807274

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Armies of the War of the Triple Alliance 1864–70 by Gabriele Esposito Pdf

The War of the Triple Alliance is the largest single conflict in the history of South America. Drawing Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay into conflict the war was characterized by extraordinarily high casualty rates, and was to shape the future of an entire continent – depopulating Paraguay and establishing Brazil as the predominant military power. Despite the importance of the war, little information is available in English about the armies that fought it. This book analyzes the combatants of the four nations caught up in the war, telling the story of the men who fought on each side, illustrated with contemporary paintings, prints, and early photographs.

Author : Frank O. Mora,Jerry Wilson Cooney
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820338989

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Paraguay and the United States by Frank O. Mora,Jerry Wilson Cooney Pdf

Ranging from the 1840s through the early twenty-first century, this study of shared political, economic, and cultural histories fills significant gaps in our understanding of Paraguayan-U.S. relations. Frank O. Mora and Jerry W. Cooney tell how an initially rocky beginning between the two countries, marked by diplomatic posturing, shows of military force, and failed business schemes, gave way to a calmer period during which the United States backed Paraguay's territorial claims against its neighbors, prospects grew brighter for American entrepreneurs, and Paraguay embraced Pan-Americanism. It was not until the 1930s that the two countries engaged in earnest as the United States attempted to mediate the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia. Then, as the authors write, "hemispheric solidarity in World War II, the cold war in Latin America, the 'balance of power' among states in the Río de la Plata, and the question of U.S. support for, or aid to, Latin American dictators" became matters of mutual interest. The dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner (1954-89) spanned much of this era, and a shared attitude of realpolitik typified U.S.-Paraguayan relations during his rule. Post-Stroessner, the United States has stood by Paraguay during its transition to democracy, despite lingering concerns about such issues as drug trafficking and intellectual piracy. The countries should grow closer with time, the authors conclude, if Paraguay resists the continent's leftward political shift and remains a solid partner in U.S. antiterror initiatives in South America.

Author : Roger Kohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1434319806

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Weep, Grey Bird, Weep by Roger Kohn Pdf

Weep, Grey Bird, Weep is the story of the most extraordinary love story of the 19th century, set against the background of the most disastrous war ever fought. The war saw the tiny republic of Paraguay fighting against the combined forces of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. By the time the war ended, in March 1870, Paraguay's population had been reduced by more than half, and 80 per cent of the male population had been killed. Paraguay's leader in this war was Francisco Solano Lopez and by his side was his devoted lover, a girl from Ireland called Eliza Lynch. He was killed on the last day of the war and she buried him and their eldest son, who died trying to protect her, with her bare hands.

Author : Gabriele Esposito
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472834430

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The Paraguayan War 1864–70 by Gabriele Esposito Pdf

The Paraguayan War, also known as the War of the Triple Alliance, was the largest and most important military conflict in the history of South America, after the Wars of Independence, and its only true 'continental' war. It involved four countries and lasted for more than five years, during which Paraguay fought alone against a powerful alliance formed by Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. This conflict was remarkable in its huge scale and its terrible cost in lives, with the catastrophic human price paid by Paraguay amounting to more than 300,000 men, a loss of some 70% of the country's total population. The war was a real revolution for the armies of South America, and the first truly modern conflict of the continent. When the war began in 1864, the armies were small, poorly trained and badly equipped semi-professional forces. However, by the time the war ended, most of them had adopted percussion rifles employing the Minié system and new weapons like breech-loading rifles and Gatling machine guns were being tested on the continent for the first time. This title covers the whole span of the war, from the early days when the conflict primarily involved small columns of a few thousand men seeking each other out in rugged and sparsely inhabited territory, through to the later Napoleonic-style positional battles fought at points of strategic importance. It also explores the unique challenges presented by the humid, subtropical climate, including the devastating impact of disease on the troops.