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War of the Pacific

The Age of Empire

The War of the Pacific was a war between Chile and a Bolivian-Peruvian alliance from 1879 to 1884, fought over Chilean claims on coastal Bolivian territory in the Atacama Desert. The war ended in victory for Chile, which gained a significant amount of resource rich territory from Peru and Bolivia, and demonstrated Chile's military and technological superiority over its opponents at the time.

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Year
1879 1
The war ran from 1879 to 1884; event-year records the start.
Event Date
1879-03-01 1
The infobox gives 1 March 1879 as the start date of the war.
Location
Pacific coast of Peru, Bolivia and Chile, and the Atacama Desert 1
Classification
Event Type
Military Conflict 1
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1. War of the Pacific, Wikipedia
  • Infobox, Location
    Pacific coast of Peru, Bolivia and Chile, the Atacama Desert, and coastal and mountainous regions of Peru
  • Lead, sentence 1
    from 1879 to 1884
  • Infobox, Date (start date)
    1 March 1879
  • War of the Pacific: Event Type
    The War of the Pacific was a war between Chile and a Bolivian-Peruvian alliance from 1879 to 1884, fought over Chilean claims on coastal Bolivian territory in the Atacama Desert.
  • In Era: The Late Modern Period, lead paragraph and infobox, dates
    The War of the Pacific (), also known by multiple other names, was a war between Chile and a Bolivian-Peruvian alliance from 1879 to 1884. Fought over
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