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Book Chilean Equipment in the Pacific War 1879 1884  Volume 1

Download or read book Chilean Equipment in the Pacific War 1879 1884 Volume 1 written by Patricio Greve Moller and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-04-28 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete list of the equipment used by the Chilean army, its weapons and clothing, in the War of the Pacific 1879-1884

Book Chilean Equipment in the Pacific War 1879 1884  Volume 2

Download or read book Chilean Equipment in the Pacific War 1879 1884 Volume 2 written by Patricio Greve Moller and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-05-12 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete study on the equipment used by the Chilean Army during the War of the Pacific 1879-1884

Book Andean Tragedy

    Book Details:
  • Author : William F. Sater
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2007-01-01
  • ISBN : 080320759X
  • Pages : 457 pages

Download or read book Andean Tragedy written by William F. Sater and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1879 marked the beginning of one of the longest, bloodiest conflicts of nineteenth-century Latin America. The War of the Pacific pitted Peru and Bolivia against Chile in a struggle initiated over a festering border dispute. The conflict saw Chile's and Peru's armored warships vying for control of sea lanes and included one of the first examples of the use of naval torpedoes.

Book Lines in the Sand

    Book Details:
  • Author : William E. Skuban
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780826342232
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Lines in the Sand written by William E. Skuban and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skuban's study highlights the fabricated nature of national identity in what became one of the most contentious border disputes in South American history.

Book The Naval War of Pacific  1879 1884

Download or read book The Naval War of Pacific 1879 1884 written by Piotr Olender and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The War of the Pacific (Spanish: Guerra del Pacífico), also known as the Saltpeter War (Spanish: Guerra del salitre) was a war between Chile and a Bolivian-Peruvian alliance. It lasted from 1879 to 1884, and was fought over Chilean claims on coastal Bolivian territory in the Atacama Desert. The war ended with victory for Chile, which gained a significant amount of resource-rich territory from Peru and Bolivia. Chile's army took Bolivia's nitrate rich coastal region and Peru was defeated by Chile's navy.Book includes maps, scale plans, period drawing, and photos.

Book The War of the Pacific

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  • Author : Gabriele Esposito
  • Publisher : Winged Hussar Publishing
  • Release : 2018-06-12
  • ISBN : 9781945430206
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The War of the Pacific written by Gabriele Esposito and published by Winged Hussar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pacific War was one of the greatest and bloodiest war ever on the west part of South America, and is one of the most important conflicts in South American history. The Pacific War was one of the greatest and bloodiest war ever on the west part of South America, and is one of the most important conflicts in South American history. It is also known as the 'Saltpeter War' or the 'Guano War' because the possession of these two highly profitable nitrates was the main cause of the conflict. This book examines the troops, uniforms and equipment used by the Chilean, Peruvian and Bolivian forces and traces the events of the war from the early naval blockades, through major pitched battles, to the final guerilla campaign in occupied Peru. The war ended in total victory for Chile, and that country's military emergence thereafter as 'the Prussia of South America', while it cost Peru some lucrative provinces, and Bolivia its outlet to the Pacific coast. A lavishly illustrated book with original plates by artist Angel Garcia Pinto

Book It s Getting a Bit Chile

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  • Author : Graham Evans
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-01-03
  • ISBN : 9781797560403
  • Pages : 82 pages

Download or read book It s Getting a Bit Chile written by Graham Evans and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's Getting a Bit Chile" is a set of tabletop rules written specifically for land battles during the Pacific War of 1879-1884, between Chile and an alliance consisting of Peru and Bolivia. Starting as a dispute over the taxation of mining rights, the "10 Cent War" was a protracted and brutal conflict that changed the face of Pacific Coast South America. Using a gridded playing area and innovative rules, "It's Getting a Bit Chile" enables games at a Divisional level and above, with the lowest level of resolution being battalion. The game has unique mechanisms devised specifically for the War and do not treat it simply as "Franco-Prussian War Lite". The author is a historian, wargamer and blogger who has written numerous sets of wargames rules and games. He produced several games for by the Society of Ancients as re-subscription incentives, when there was such a thing. His blog, "Wargaming for Grown Ups" contains more information on these rules, with photographs and reports of games in play. He also wrote "Northampton 1460" a board game of the Wars of the Roses battle of that name, which was published by the Northamptonshire Battlefields Society. He can usually be found on their stand at many wargames shows. More recently he went back to his roots as a historian and published "The Battle of Edgcote 1469 - Re-evaluating the evidence" to mark the 550th anniversary of the battle. It went on to win the Northamptonshire History Forum Award for best publication in 2019. "It's Getting a Bit Chile" is the second set of rules from the "Wargaming for Grown Ups" imprint, following on from the successful "To Ur is Human" Sumerian rules.

Book The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars

Download or read book The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars written by Robert Gilpin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-02-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of the origins of major wars, since the development of the modern state system in Europe centuries ago, also considers the problems involved in preventing a contemporary nuclear war.

Book Chile and the Nazis

Download or read book Chile and the Nazis written by Graeme Stewart Mount and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's subsequent declaration of war upon the United States, Chile's reluctance to sever diplomatic ties with Nazi Germany allowed Germany to maximize its opportunities there, influencing Chilean politicians, military operations, and the popular media. This is the story of Chile, of its efforts to maintain neutrality, its abandonment of neutrality, and the significance-long-term and short-term-of those actions. Based on documentary evidence from the archives of the Chilean Foreign Office, and from U.S., British, German, and, intercepted, Japanese documents, Mount is one of the first authors to provide evidence of the events and circumstances surrounding Chile's refusal to comply with the will of the White House and the State Department, in 1942, that they sever diplomatic relations with Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan. According to his findings, this refusal, fueled by bribes to influential politicians and journalists, a respect for the German-Chilean electorate in a presidential election year, a fear of what Nazi submarines might do to Chilean shipping and the Chilean coastline, and a desire to demonstrate independence, allowed these countries to use their embassies as centres of espionage that radiated as far north as Canada and threatened Allied shipping. Mount concludes that although the government of President Rios finally did make the break, sympathy for the Nazis and their values did not disappear but continued to have an impact upon Chile into the era of Augusto Pinochet, Chilean head of state from 1973 to 1990. Graeme S. Mount teaches history at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. He is author of many books dealing with Canada-United States relations. His most recent include The Caribbean Basin: An International History,/I> and Invisible and Inaudible in Washington: American Policies toward Canada during the Cold War.

Book Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World

Download or read book Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World written by Gregory T. Cushman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of bird guano, demonstrating how this unique commodity helped unite the Pacific Basin with the industrialized world.

Book The Ten Cents War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bruce W. Farcau
  • Publisher : Praeger
  • Release : 2000-09-30
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book The Ten Cents War written by Bruce W. Farcau and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atacama Desert, a coastal area where the borders of Chile, Peru, and Bolivia meet, was a region of little interest in the late nineteenth century until European research on the use of nitrates in fertilizers and explosives rendered the droppings of millions of sea birds a valuable commodity. In a move that echoed the California Gold Rush, the three neighboring countries soon battled for control of the region. In 1879, a comparatively modern and powerful Chile seized Bolivia's coastal province, and a secret alliance between Peru and Bolivia soon led to a full-scale war, one which saw the employment of much new military technology. Using such new weapons as the breech-loading rifle, rapid-fire cannon, ironclad warships, torpedoes, and electronic mines, Chile quickly crushed the allied armies, but a guerrilla war would drag on for years. While the three armies fought over some of the most inhospitable terrain imaginable, from burning, waterless deserts to snow-clogged mountain passes at 15,000 feet, their governments bumbled and wrangled. In the end, the lure of easy wealth undermined the economies of all three nations and served no good purpose when the market for nitrates soon evaporated, leaving all three much poorer for the experience.

Book Low intensity Conflict in the Third World

Download or read book Low intensity Conflict in the Third World written by Stephen Blank and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A common thread ties together the five case studies of this book: the persistence with which the bilateral relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union continues to dominate American foreign and regional policies. These essays analyze the LIC environment in Central Asia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa.

Book The Grand Araucanian Wars  1541   1883  in the Kingdom of Chile

Download or read book The Grand Araucanian Wars 1541 1883 in the Kingdom of Chile written by Eduardo Agustin Cruz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mapuches accomplished what the mighty Aztec and Inca empires failed so overwhelming to do- to preserve their independence, and keep the Spanish invaders at bay. The Mapuche infantry played a vital role in the Araucanian war, from the initial of the conquest in 1541 to 1883. The goals of this book: a) To provide an overview of the military aspects weaponry, armory, the horse, and tactic, strategy facing the Mapuches; at the beginning of the Spanish conquest. b) To provide an overview, of the military superiority enjoyed, by the Spanish army, in addition, the role of the Auxiliary Indian. c) To point out how, by military innovations, and adaptation in the face of Araucanian war, the Mapuches managed to resist Spanish military campaigns, for over 300 years.

Book Contested Communities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Miller Klubock
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780822320920
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book Contested Communities written by Thomas Miller Klubock and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Contested Communities Thomas Miller Klubock analyzes the experiences of the El Teniente copper miners during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Describing the everyday life and culture of the mining community, its impact on Chilean politics and national events, and the sense of self and identity working-class men and women developed in the foreign-owned enclave, Klubock provides important insights into the cultural and social history of Chile. Klubock shows how a militant working-class community was established through the interplay between capitalist development, state formation, and the ideologies of gender. In describing how the North American copper company attempted to reconfigure and reform the work and social-cultural lives of men and women who migrated to the mine, Klubock demonstrates how struggles between labor and capital took place on a gendered field of power and reconstituted social constructions of masculinity and femininity. As a result, Contested Communities describes more accurately than any previous study the nature of grassroots labor militancy, working-class culture, and everyday politics of gender relations during crucial years of the Chilean Popular Front in the 1930s and 1940s.

Book Historical unrest at the large calderas of the world

Download or read book Historical unrest at the large calderas of the world written by Christopher G. Newhall and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Huntington Family in America

Download or read book The Huntington Family in America written by Huntington Family Association and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the British Presence in Chile

Download or read book A History of the British Presence in Chile written by W. Edmundson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to narrate the contributions to and influence on the history of Chile that British visitors and immigrants have had, not as bystanders but as key players, starting in 1554 with the English Queen 'Bloody Mary' becoming Queen of Chile, and ending with the decline of British influence following the Second World War.