The Capture of the steamer Marquês de Olinda, also called the Battle of Potrero-Poña, was a Paraguayan naval action carried out on 12 November 1864, in Potrero-Poña, on the Paraguay River, which consi
The steamer Marquês de Olinda
Marquês de Olinda on fire after the Battle of Riachuelo (Semana Illustrada, no. 248, 1865)
Battle of Cerro Corá
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The Battle of Cerro Corá was the last major battle of the Paraguayan War, fought on 1 March 1870, in the vicinity of Cerro Corá, 454 kilometres northeast of Paraguay's capital Asunción. It is known fo
Capture of the steamer Marquês de Olinda
…interstate armed conflict in South America began, the Paraguayan War, which would last for more than five years, until Solano López was killed in the Battle of Cerro Corá in 1870. After the ship's capture, the Paraguayans converted it into a warship, arming it with 8 cannons. On 11 June 1865, the Marquês de Olinda, under…
Corporal José Francisco Lacerda, known as Chico Diabo (Devil Frank), wounding Solano López with a spear
Francisco Solano López with the clothes he was killed in (drawing by Angelo Agostini, based on a photograph taken by Domingo Parodi days before the battle of Cerro Corá)
Cerro Corá, as seen from Cerro Muralla hill
General José Antônio Correia da Câmara in 1870