Battle of Yacaré
| Battle of Yacaré | |||||||
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| Part of the Paraguayan War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Empire of Brazil |
 Paraguay | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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João Niederauer Sobrinho |
José Matias Bado | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 800 cavalrymen | 200 cavalrymen | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 80 casualties |
76 dead 5 captured[1] | ||||||
The Battle of Yacaré was a battle fought in August 26, 1868, by Brazilian and Paraguayan forces during the Paraguayan War, part of the beginning of the Pikysyry campaign. It was a Brazilian victory.
The allied army had only weeks before concluded opeartions around the Fortress of Humaitá and begun to advance north towards Asunción, the Paraguayan capital. This battle was one of the first fought during this movement, an assault and capture of a defensive fieldwork which lay on the way to the Paraguayan headquarters at the Pikysyry line.
Engagement
[edit]As operations in Paraguay resumed after a lull of a few weeks following the end of the long siege of Humaitá, the allied army started to push north towards the new Paraguayan positions, much closer to Asunción. Between Humaitá and these positions the Paraguayan forces posted an advance detachment of 200 men under captain José Matias Bado in a fortification over the Yacaré stream, close to other defensive emplacements on the Tebicuary river.[1]
When Bado saw the full allied army advancing, he ordered a withdrawal, which was stopped by skirmishers and then a charge by colonel Niederauer's 6th Provincial Cavalry Corps, 800 men strong. Both sides suffered a similar number of casualties before the remainder of the Paraguayan force managed to withdraw to the main defensive line.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Hooker 2008, p. 88.
- ^ Hooker 2008, p. 88; Centurión 1897, pp. 224–225; O'Leary 1916, p. 22.
Sources
[edit]- Centurión, Juan C. (1897). Memorias del coronel Juan Crisóstomo Centurión o sea reminiscencias históricas sobre la Guerra del Paraguay (in Spanish). Vol. 3. Imprenta de Obras de J. A. Berra.
- Hooker, Terry D. (2008). The Paraguayan War. Nottingham: Foundry Books. ISBN 978-1901543155.
- O'Leary, Juan (1916). Lomas Valentinas (in Spanish).