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A more detailed account of the war follows, providing a concise and even-handed look at operations and some personalities, leading to the ultimate collapse of Paraguay. A discussion of each of the ...

and consequences of the war, which Paraguay initiated, only to be ultimately overwhelmed by her larger, more powerful neighbors, with casualties running into the hundreds of thousands. The short ...

Between 1864 and 1870 South America was the scene of the biggest and bloodiest armed conflict of the century known as the Paraguay War or Big War for Paraguayans Mixing reality and fiction the ...

Despite a reduction in poverty, Paraguay remains one of the poorest countries in Latin America The War of the Triple Alliance resulted in one of the costliest defeats ever inflicted on a modern state.