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dominated the entire position and the land to their rear. Another company of that regiment made a movement to the left of the portezuelo. Barbosa also ordered Buin's company to support the frontal attack carried out by the three companies of the 3rd Line
Infantry and arranged for the artillery servers with their two mountain pieces to cover these units as they advanced. He further ordered that the Horse Grenadiers begin an advance to the left of the Peruvian position so that they would then make a detour through the hills and take the rearguard while the rest of the Chilean troops remained in the reserves.
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characteristics of these positions in order to adopt a battle plan, so the exploration missions were entrusted to several officers who were given a few troops to carry out these operations, although some were executed by
Baquedano himself in the company of his General Staff. These reconnaissances, in which there were some skirmishes with the Peruvian troops that held the defense lines of the capital, caused two different currents to pronounce on the battle plan in the higher command. The Chilean Minister of War,
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advancing the second line that, a few meters from the first, performed the same operation. The
Peruvian defenders answered the advance of the Chilean troops with heavy fire, but the lack of training of the shooters made it ineffective. Colonel Vargas at that critical moment had requested the help of the 14th Reserve Battalion, which was the closest reinforcements to the positions attacked by the Chileans, but they had superior orders not to engage in combat.
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Reserve Battalion, the Pachacamác battalion and a company of artillerymen with 4 White guns. On the other hand, the Chilean command had rejected the idea of carrying out the general attack through that sector, considering the journey from Lurín too long, and due to the difficulty of the terrain to mobilize a much larger force than Barbosa had to carry out the exploration. of the area.
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Peruvian capital. At 11 AM, the battle ended and Barbosa remained in the position recently taken to gather his troops, treat his wounded, rest and make some observations of the terrain. This continued until 1 PM as by then, he undertook the return to the Chilean camp in Lurín.
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Their defensive position consisted of a two meter wide ditch and behind it a parapet. Both extended to their ends, right and left, respectively, from the heights of La Molina and
Melgarejo, which were separated by about two kilometers. It also had for its defense several automatic mines installed in
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Peruvian withdrawal from its position in Rinconada, the entrance to Lima through Ate was left open for the Chilean expeditionaries for that day. Piérola, who did not believe that the Chileans could arrive through Ate, ordered to reinforce the defenses in that place, which has been made up
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Barboza first dispatched the Grenadiers on Horseback to explore the area. They soon returned with the news that there were mines in the front and that behind these artifacts was the defensive position in which the Peruvian troops were sheltered, unable to calculate their number as they were
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and his forces that were 330 men with little education, made up of landowners and residents of the area who had been armed with Minié rifles . Vargas's forces were composed of 180 men from the
Pachacamác battalion, a squad of 100 men who belonged to the 1st Cavalry Brigade, on foot, and 50 men from
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with his division on the afternoon of January 8, 1881, arriving at dusk at the Manchay ravine where he rested his troops. At 1 AM he continued the march to arrive at dawn to the places that he had to recognize. His objective was to make a reconnaissance along the road called Cieneguilla, enter the
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A short distance from his rear was the reserve battalion No. 14 under the command of Colonel Manuel Pomar and another section of cavalry under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Millán Murga. Also a few leagues to his rear was the heavy caliber battery of the fortified position of Vásquez, which
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General Baquedano, considering the possibility of the encircling attack proposed by War Minister Vergara, commissioned Colonel Barbosa to explore the Manchay and Ate road, giving him a strong division of approximately 2,000 men from the three arms. Composed of the 3rd Line Infantry Regiment, a
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defended the idea of carrying out an attack through Ate, along the Manchay road to surround the Peruvian army by a flank movement and interpose between it and the capital. On the other hand, Baquedano and his closest circle advocated a frontal attack on the Peruvian positions.
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open through which the road turns, while others crowned the heights on either side.The enemy cavalry appeared in the valley behind the infantry, and the cannons of the forts to the south of Lima fired grenades at our ranks.
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asking for reinforcements to be able to make an adequate defense of the area in case the Chilean army attacked their position. However, his requests were not heeded as an attack in that place was considered unlikely.
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battalion of the Lautaro regiment, a company of the Buin Mounted Regiment, a squadron of Grenadiers on horseback, a platoon of Chasseurs on escort horseback and an artillery unit with 2 Krupp mountain pieces.
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The combat motivated the publication of the political cartoon, titled "El Padre Cobos" on October 29, 1881. The cartoonist mocks "The immortals of Grau", who are eliminated like birds in a hunting session.
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hidden. Barboza then decided to carry out an attack at different points. The Chileans move to execute the attack on the position, beginning at 8:30 AM but movement was slow due to difficult terrain.
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they had to delay this operation to be able to get within rifle shot of us, and as was seen later, because of the multitude of ravines that those heights contain.
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in the Ate Valley, an American engineer named Murphy, who gave important scientific details about the Peruvian lines that defended the capital.
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702:Huamachuco
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663:Concepción
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952:Aftermath
707:Izcuchaca
668:San Pablo
628:Acuchimay
609:Guadalupe
589:Calientes
385:Quillagua
327:Pilcomayo
192:Source 2:
187:Source 1:
962:hacienda
925:—
898:—
784:Curayacu
724:Arequipa
653:La Oroya
579:Verrugas
443:Mollendo
438:Moquegua
419:Tarapacá
390:Tambillo
165:Strength
73:Location
29:Part of
807:in the
754:of the
648:Chupaca
574:Sángrar
453:Locumba
404:Pisagua
343:Rupture
321:Angamos
288:Huáscar
267:Pisagua
262:Chipana
33:of the
780:Chilca
604:Motupe
504:Bujama
494:Chilca
473:Tarata
375:Calama
125:
90:Result
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509:Humay
468:Arica
463:Tacna
333:Arica
305:Rímac
115:Chile
1135:link
1110:link
1085:link
746:The
695:1883
616:1882
557:1881
534:Lima
128:Peru
83:Peru
65:Date
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