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Book Synopsis Armies of the War of the Pacific 1879–83 by : Gabriele Esposito
Download or read book Armies of the War of the Pacific 1879–83 written by Gabriele Esposito and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pacific War was the greatest and bloodiest war ever fought in the Andean region, and is one of the most important conflicts in South American history. It is also known as the 'Saltpeter War' or the 'Guano War' because the possession of these two highly profitable nitrates was the main cause of the conflict. By the 1870s Chilean military superiority and expansionist policies exploded into full scale conflict. This book examines the troops, uniforms and equipment used by the Chilean, Peruvian and Bolivian forces and traces the events of the war from the early naval blockades, through major pitched battles, to the final guerilla campaign in occupied Peru. The war ended in total victory for Chile, and that country's military emergence thereafter as 'the Prussia of South America', while it cost Peru some lucrative provinces, and Bolivia its outlet to the Pacific coast.
Book Synopsis The War of the Pacific by : Gabriele Esposito
Download or read book The War of the Pacific written by Gabriele Esposito and published by Winged Hussar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pacific War was one of the greatest and bloodiest war ever on the west part of South America, and is one of the most important conflicts in South American history. The Pacific War was one of the greatest and bloodiest war ever on the west part of South America, and is one of the most important conflicts in South American history. It is also known as the 'Saltpeter War' or the 'Guano War' because the possession of these two highly profitable nitrates was the main cause of the conflict. This book examines the troops, uniforms and equipment used by the Chilean, Peruvian and Bolivian forces and traces the events of the war from the early naval blockades, through major pitched battles, to the final guerilla campaign in occupied Peru. The war ended in total victory for Chile, and that country's military emergence thereafter as 'the Prussia of South America', while it cost Peru some lucrative provinces, and Bolivia its outlet to the Pacific coast. A lavishly illustrated book with original plates by artist Angel Garcia Pinto
Book Synopsis The South American Pacific War by : Jonathan S. Swift
Download or read book The South American Pacific War written by Jonathan S. Swift and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peru and Bolivia were decisively beaten by Chile during the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884 and as a direct consequence of this humiliating defeat they suffered extensive territorial losses, including the entire Bolivia coastline. The territories lost contained valuable nitrate and guano deposits, which were exploited by Chile, at a most fortuitous time for the rapidly-degenerating Chilean economy.Why should countries of similar colonial backgrounds which had co-operated in the defeat of Spanish forces in the early-mid nineteenth century, find themselves at war towards the end of that same century? This book attempts to answer this question, and also explain why the allied forces of Peru and Bolivia were defeated by Chile - even though contemporary commentators favored Peru as the stronger of the three, and consequently Chile was not expected to win in a conflict against Peru, especially when Bolivian forces were also aligned against them. The War of the Pacific was the first modern war to be fought in Latin America; the lessons of the American Civil War (1861-1865) and the Franco - Prussian War (1870-1871) appear to have been largely lost on Peru and Bolivia. It was a war dominated firstly by ironclad battleships, and then by rifled artillery, primitive machine-guns, the first modern infantry rifles, railways, and the telegraph. The battles (on land and at sea) are examined in detail; however, the key to the war was control of the sea, and once this had been lost to Chile, defeat for Peru and Bolivia was all but inevitable.The first part of this book examines the social structure, political institutions and economies of the three nations. It finishes with an analysis of the external political and diplomatic strategies of each nation, and the growing role played by the European powers (principally Great Britain), and the USA. It shows how the interlinked diplomatic strategies and economic objectives brought conflict ever - closer, and ultimately made it all but inevitable.Next the military capabilities of the three nations involved is examined: a comparison of the armed forces involved in the conflict, and the weaponry with which each side was equipped. This comparative analysis begins with an examination of the naval forces available to Peru and Chile - Bolivia had no navy, even when she still had a coastline.The last two parts of the book chart the progress of the war through two basic phases: (1) the Chilean occupation of the Bolivian littoral and town of Antofagasta and the subsequent naval campaigns, and (2) the Chilean land invasion of Peru, and then the progressive land campaigns that resulted in the capture of the capital, Lima. Whilst the war did not officially finish with the Chilean capture of Lima in 1881, this is the point at which the book concludes. From this point until the signing of the final peace treaty, the Chilean occupation forces were plagued by a very successful guerrilla campaign led by Colonel Andrés Cáceres, the most successful Peruvian field commander during the war.
Book Synopsis Andean Tragedy by : William F. Sater
Download or read book Andean Tragedy written by William F. Sater and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1879 marked the beginning of one of the longest, bloodiest conflicts of nineteenth-century Latin America. The War of the Pacific pitted Peru and Bolivia against Chile in a struggle initiated over a festering border dispute. The conflict saw Chile's and Peru's armored warships vying for control of sea lanes and included one of the first examples of the use of naval torpedoes.
Book Synopsis The Ten Cents War by : Bruce W. Farcau
Download or read book The Ten Cents War written by Bruce W. Farcau and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atacama Desert, a coastal area where the borders of Chile, Peru, and Bolivia meet, was a region of little interest in the late nineteenth century until European research on the use of nitrates in fertilizers and explosives rendered the droppings of millions of sea birds a valuable commodity. In a move that echoed the California Gold Rush, the three neighboring countries soon battled for control of the region. In 1879, a comparatively modern and powerful Chile seized Bolivia's coastal province, and a secret alliance between Peru and Bolivia soon led to a full-scale war, one which saw the employment of much new military technology. Using such new weapons as the breech-loading rifle, rapid-fire cannon, ironclad warships, torpedoes, and electronic mines, Chile quickly crushed the allied armies, but a guerrilla war would drag on for years. While the three armies fought over some of the most inhospitable terrain imaginable, from burning, waterless deserts to snow-clogged mountain passes at 15,000 feet, their governments bumbled and wrangled. In the end, the lure of easy wealth undermined the economies of all three nations and served no good purpose when the market for nitrates soon evaporated, leaving all three much poorer for the experience.
Download or read book War without Mercy written by John Dower and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A monumental history that has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States.” In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War—race—while writing what John Toland has called “a landmark book ... a powerful, moving, and evenhanded history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan.” Drawing on American and Japanese songs, slogans, cartoons, propaganda films, secret reports, and a wealth of other documents of the time, Dower opens up a whole new way of looking at that bitter struggle of four and a half decades ago and its ramifications in our lives today. As Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan, has pointed out, this book offers “a lesson that the postwar generations need most ... with eloquence, crushing detail, and power.”
Book Synopsis African Americans and the Pacific War, 1941–1945 by : Chris Dixon
Download or read book African Americans and the Pacific War, 1941–1945 written by Chris Dixon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dixon provides the first comprehensive study of African American military and social experiences during the Pacific War.
Book Synopsis The War on the Pacific Coast of South America Between Chile and the Allied Republics of Peru and Bol by : Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason
Download or read book The War on the Pacific Coast of South America Between Chile and the Allied Republics of Peru and Bol written by Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Pacific War by : William B. Hopkins
Download or read book The Pacific War written by William B. Hopkins and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “important comprehensive study” of WWII in the Pacific examines the high-level decision-making and strategy that led to victory (Roanoke Times). Once the stories have been told of battles won and lost, most of what happens in a war remains a mystery. So it has been with accounts of World War II in the Pacific, a complex conflict whose nature is often obscured by simple chronological narratives. In The Pacific War, William B. Hopkins, a Marine Corps veteran of the Pacific war and respected military history author, opens the story of the Pacific campaign to a broader and deeper view. Hopkins investigates the strategies, politics, and personalities that shaped the fighting. His regional approach to this complex war conducted on land, sea, and air offers an insightful perspective on how this multifaceted conflict unfolded. As expansive as the immense reaches of the Pacific, and as focused as the most intensive pinpoint attack on a strategic island, Hopkins’ account offers a fresh way of understanding the hows—and more significantly, the whys—of the Pacific War.
Book Synopsis Armies of the War of the Pacific 1879–83 by : Gabriele Esposito
Download or read book Armies of the War of the Pacific 1879–83 written by Gabriele Esposito and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pacific War was the climax of the decades-long Wars of Liberation, and is one of the most important conflicts in South American history. After winning their independence from Spain in 1825, Peru and Bolivia became separate nations - but over the following years repeated attempts to re-unite them were frustrated by the neighboring powers, particularly Chile. By the 1870s Chilean military superiority and expansionist policies exploded into full scale conflict. This book examines the troops, uniforms and equipment used by forces on all three sides of the conflict and traces the events of the war from the early naval blockades to the full-scale amphibious landings undertaken by the Chilean forces. The war ended in total victory for Chile, and that country's emergence thereafter as 'the Prussia of South America', while it cost Peru a lucrative province, and Bolivia its outlet to the Pacific coast.
Book Synopsis The War on the Pacific Coast of South America Between Chile and the Allied Republics of Peru and Bol - War College Series by : Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason
Download or read book The War on the Pacific Coast of South America Between Chile and the Allied Republics of Peru and Bol - War College Series written by Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason and published by War College Series. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.
Book Synopsis Fire and Fortitude by : John C. McManus
Download or read book Fire and Fortitude written by John C. McManus and published by Dutton Caliber. This book was released on 2019 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John C. McManus, one of our most highly-acclaimed historians of World War II, takes readers from Pearl Harbor--a rude awakening for a ragtag militia woefully unprepared for war--to Makin, a sliver of coral reef where the Army was tested against the increasingly-desperate Japanese. In between were nearly two years of punishing combat as the Army transformed, at times unsteadily, from an undertrained garrison force into an unstoppable juggernaut, and America evolved from an inward-looking nation into a global superpower."--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis The War on the Pacific Coast of South America Between Chile and the Allied Republics of Peru and Bol - Scholar's Choice Edition by : Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason
Download or read book The War on the Pacific Coast of South America Between Chile and the Allied Republics of Peru and Bol - Scholar's Choice Edition written by Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Pacific Warriors by : Eric M. Hammel
Download or read book Pacific Warriors written by Eric M. Hammel and published by Zenith Imprint. This book was released on 2005 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, and more recently from the jungles of Vietnam to the killing fields of Iraq, America's "soldiers of the sea" have fought their country's battles with famed valor, skill, and perseverance in the face of long odds. But where did the U.S. Marines earn their reputation as being the "first to fight?" It was on the South Pacific Island of Guadalcanal. There, on August 7, 1942, the 1st Marine Division stormed ashore to begin one of the most difficult and brutal campaigns of military history, and an unbroken string of victories staged across the Pacific.
Book Synopsis The War On the Pacific Coast of South America Between Chile and the Allied Republics of Peru and Bolivia by : Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason
Download or read book The War On the Pacific Coast of South America Between Chile and the Allied Republics of Peru and Bolivia written by Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-07 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The War on the Pacific Coast of South America Between Chile and the Allied Republics of Peru and Bolivia by : Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason
Download or read book The War on the Pacific Coast of South America Between Chile and the Allied Republics of Peru and Bolivia written by Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason and published by War College Series. This book was released on 2015-02-08 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.
Book Synopsis Latin America During World War II by : Thomas M. Leonard
Download or read book Latin America During World War II written by Thomas M. Leonard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of World War II from the Latin American perspective, this unique volume offers an in-depth analysis of the region during wartime. Each country responded to World War II according to its own national interests, which often conflicted with those of the Allies, including the United States. The contributors systematically consider how each country dealt with commonly shared problems: the Axis threat to the national order, the extent of military cooperation with the Allies, and the war's impact on the national economy and domestic political and social structures. Drawing on both U.S. and Latin American primary sources, the book offers a rigorous comparison of the wartime experiences of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Central America, Gran Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, and Puerto Rico.
