The War Between Peru and Chile, 1879-1882
F 3097 M37 1882 c. 1 ROBA THE WAR BETWEEN PERU AND CHILE, 1879 1882. BY CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, C.B., F.R.S. SiEH BY PR ATiON \ SERViCtS SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON, CROWN BUILDINGS, l88, FLEET STREET. O 1882. ry [All rights reserved.] ^\ / ^ Y LONDON : 1-KINTED BY GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, LIMITED, ST. JOHN'S SQUARE. TO JEemoru OF Dr. DON FRANCISCO DE PAULA GONZALEZ VIGIL, The great Peruvian Scholar and Philanthropist, and Author of " Paz Perpetua," is dedicated this narrative of the undeserved misfortunes of that land of the Yncas which he served so long and faithfully, and loved so well. He who laboured earnestly and nobly to secure the blessings of perpetual peace for South America, and who denounced all he with wars of aggression and of conquest ; who exclaimed, " feelings of deepest pity and sorrow, Heu miseri qui bella gerunt/" would still have approved the heroic struggles of his countrymen in defence of their native land. A 2 PREFACE. THE war on the west coast of South America between Peru and Bolivia on one side and Chile on the other has continued for nearly four years There have been naval operations of considerable interest, and there were three distinct and successive campaigns in different and widely separated regions, but all three on the Pacific coast. The naval campaign is deserving of attention, because in it the armoured-ships of recent con- struction encountered each other for the first time, and because guns of extraordinary range, torpedo- boats and torpedoes, and other late inventions have, also for the first time, been used in actual war- fare.
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