What the records say
- When
- 19 Feb 1868
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 27.07° S, 58.50° W
- Description
- 1868 naval battle
- Naval
- yes
Passage of Humaitá
Operation in the Paraguayan War
The Passage of Humaitá was an operation of riverine warfare during the Paraguayan War − the most lethal in South American history − in which a force of six Imperial Brazilian Navy armoured vessels was ordered to dash past under the guns of the Paraguayan fortress of Humaitá. Some competent neutral observers had considered that the feat was very nearly impossible.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In the Passage of Humaitá, a Brazilian naval force succeeds in dashing past a Paraguayan fortress on the River Paraguay”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “El Paso de Humaitá fue forzado exitosamente por la escuadra de la Marina del Brasil”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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