Battle of Tacna

When

26 May 1880

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

18.00° S, 70.29° W

Description

1880 battle in Peru

1880 battle in Peru

The Battle of Tacna, also known as the Battle of the Alto de la Alianza, was a battle that took place on May 26, 1880, at the plateau of the Alto de la Alianza, a hill a few miles north of the Peruvian city of Tacna. It effectively destroyed the Peru-Bolivian alliance against Chile, forged by a secret treaty signed in 1873.

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• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “bataille de l’Alto de la Alianza, dans la guerre du Pacifique entre le Chili et le Pérou”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en el marco de la guerra del Pacífico se lleva a cabo la Batalla del Alto de la Alianza (en Tacna) en donde el ejército chileno vence a las tropas aliadas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• War of the Pacific14 Feb 1879 · Interstate war · Deaths 13,868