Armies of the War of the Triple Alliance 1864-70: Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay & Argentina

by Gabriele Esposito, Giuseppe Rava (Illustrator)

Overview

The War of the Triple Alliance is the largest single conflict in the history of South America. Drawing Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay into conflict the war was characterized by extraordinarily high casualty rates, and was to shape the future of an entire continent – depopulating Paraguay and establishing Brazil as the predominant military power. Despite the importance of the war, little information is available in English about the armies that fought it. This book analyzes the combatants of the four nations caught up in the war, telling the story of the men who fought on each side, illustrated with contemporary paintings, prints, and early photographs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472807274
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	03/20/2015
Series:	Men-at-Arms , #499
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	48
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Gabriele Esposito is an Italian native, and a long-time student of South American wars. He has previously written magazine articles on the War of the Triple Alliance amongst other subjects.

Giuseppe Rava was born in Faenza in 1963, and took an interest in all things military from an early age. Entirely self-taught, Giuseppe has established himself as a leading military history artist, and is inspired by the works of the great military artists, such as Detaille, Meissonier, Röchling, Lady Butler, Ottenfeld and Angus McBride.
GABRIELE ESPOSITO is a professor of modern history, a freelance researcher and an author of military history books, specializing in uniformology. His interests range from ancient civilizations to modern postcolonial conflicts including 19th-century Italian, Spanish and Latin American wars. His books and essays have been published by Pen&Sword, Winged Hussar and Libreria Editrice Goriziana and he contributes to a variety of specialist military-history journals. He has written various titles for Osprey including MAA 499 Armies of the War of the Triple Alliance 1864–70 and MAA 541 Armies of the War of the Grand Alliance 1688–97.
Giuseppe Rava was born in Faenza in 1963, and took an interest in all things military from an early age. Entirely self-taught, Giuseppe has established himself as a leading military history artist, and is inspired by the works of the great military artists, such as Detaille, Meissonier, Röchling, Lady Butler, Ottenfeld and Angus McBride. He lives and works in Italy.

Table of Contents

Introduction 3

The Road to War 5

Chronology 7

Military Operations 10

First phase: Paraguayan incursions into Brazil, winter 1864-65 - Uruguay enters war, January 1865 - Paraguayan incursions into Argentina, March 1865

Second phase: the Triple Alliance - operations in 1865 -April-September 1866: Estero Bellaco, Tuyuti and Curupayti-pause in major operations

Third phase: maneuvers before Humaita, August-November 1867 - siege of Humaita, February-July 1868 - Caxias's December 1868 campaign: 'the Pikysyry maneuver' - tororo, Avay, Ypacarai and Lomas Valentinas - fall of Asuncion

The 1869 Cordillera campaign: Pcribebuy and Acosta Nu - death of Lopez

Naval operations

Aftermath

The Paraguayan Army 23

Organization - tactics and performance - weapons

The Brazilian Army 34

Organization - tactics and performance - weapons

The Argentine Army 38

Organization - tactics and performance - weapons

The Uruguayan Army 41

Organization - tactics and performance - weapons

Select Bibliography 43

Plate Commentaries 44

Index 48