War of the Pacific
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The War of the Pacific, also known by multiple other names, was a war between Chile and a Bolivian–Peruvian alliance from 1879 to 1884. Fought over Chilean claims on coastal Bolivian territory in the
Chilean lieutenant Solo Zaldívar and two soldiers burying three Bolivian soldiers after the Battle of Tacna. The elevation behind them is also a burial ground of victims.
Martiniano Urriola, with kepi, the commander of the occupation of Ayacucho in 1883, and Marcos Maturana, with poncho, the general chief of staff chief of the Expeditionary Army during the Lima Campaign; they view the dead bodies of a Peruvian gun crew after the Battle of Chorrillos.
A metallic brass cartridge for a Fusil Gras mle 1874 and a paper cartridge for a Chassepot rifle. The brass cartridge avoided the smoke and ashes of the self-consuming paper cartridge.
Battle of Iquique
After the naval campaign of the War of the Pacific was resolved, the Chilean terrestrial invasion began.
The Battle of Arica by Juan Lepiani depicts Bolognesi's final moments.
Infantry regiment of the Chilean Army, formed in Lurín, south of Lima, in January 1881
"The Third Fort" by Juan Lepiani, one of the Peruvian strongholds in the Miraflores
Chilean army entering Lima.