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Lima Campaign
Part of War of the Pacific

Movements and battles of the Lima campaign.
DateDecember 1880 – January 1881
Location
Departments of Ica and Lima, Peru
Result

Chilean victory

  • Chilean occupation of Lima and other territories of the Peruvian coast.
Belligerents
Chile Chile Peru Peru
Commanders and leaders
Chile Manuel Baquedano Peru Nicolás de Piérola

The Lima Campaign is the third land campaign of the War of the Pacific, carried out by Chile between December 1880 and January 1881. The campaign ended with the Chilean occupation of the Peruvian capital and the establishment of the Chilean authority in it and other surrounding territories, which would extend until 1883, with the end of the war.

Bibliography

  • Barros Arana, Diego (1881b). Historia de la guerra del Pacífico (1879–1880) (in Spanish). Vol. 2. Santiago, Chile: Librería Central de Servat i Ca. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Basadre, Jorge (1964). Historia de la Republica del Peru, La guerra con Chile (in Spanish). Lima, Peru: Peruamerica S.A. Archived from the original on December 11, 2007. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Villalobos, Sergio (2004). Chile y Perú, la historia que nos une y nos separa, 1535–1883 (in Spanish) (2nd ed.). Chile: Editorial Universitaria. ISBN 9789561116016. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Sater, William F. (2007). Andean Tragedy: Fighting the War of the Pacific, 1879–1884. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-4334-7. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Scheina, Robert L. (2003). Latin America's Wars: The age of the caudillo, 1791–1899. Potomac Books, Inc. ISBN 978-1-57488-450-0. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)