Battle of Cerro Corá
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| Battle of Cerro Corá | |||||||
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| Part of the Paraguayan War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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 Francisco Solano López † |
 José Antônio Correia da Câmara |
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| 100–250 | 4,000 | ||||||
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The battle of Cerro Corá was fought on 1 March 1870 on a hill-surrounded valley of the same name, in the north-east of Paraguay. This was the last battle in the Paraguayan War.
Estimatives claim that Francisco Solano López's personal guard had from 100 to 250 soldiers. The Brazilian troops were composed of a battalion of about 4,000 men. At the margin of the Aquidaban-Nigui stream Solano Lopez's troops were surrounded and defeated.
Lopez was surprised by Brazilian troops and killed by Brazilian Imperial Army Grenadier Corporal José Francisco Lacerda, better known as Chico Diabo, as he attempted to swim to safety across the Aquidaban River.
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