What the records say
- When
- 16 Aug 1869
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 25.38° S, 56.96° W
- Description
- 1869 Ganadores
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Battle of Acosta Ñu
1869 battle of the Paraguayan War
The Battle of Acosta Ñu, also known as the Children's Battle in Paraguay and the Battle of Campo Grande in Brazil, took place on 16 August 1869. It was the last major engagement of the Paraguayan War between the Triple Alliance and Paraguay. The 3,500 poorly armed Paraguayans, mostly boys between nine and fifteen years old, old men and wounded combatants, confronted 20,000 Brazilian and Argentine veteran soldiers.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Eusebio Ayala (Paraguay) ―en el marco de la guerra de la Triple Alianza (1864-1870)―”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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