The Paraguay War

Paraguay• An industrialized country

o Guns and gun powder factoryso steel industry, railways and an efficient system of telegraph

• Eradicated illiteracy

Solano Lopez• Born in 1827

• Son of the previus president for lifeCarlos Antonio Lopez

• A greedy external policy

• A violent man

Civil War on Uruguai• Parties in dispute

• Blancos X Colorados

• Imperialist Brazil’s interventiono In 1863o Overtrew the Blanco presidento Put in power Venâncio Flores, Colorado president

The War Triggers• Lopez fear of the imperialism of Brazil

o A big nation that could demolish smallernations in the continento Suport of the argentinians caudilhos andthe Blanco party in uruguai

• An exit for the seao Through the plata river

• Lopez cravings for militaryexpantion

The War Starts• Inavsion of Mato grosso

o A diversion

• Imprisioning of the Marquês de Olinda Ship

o President of the province of Mato Grosso

• Invasion of Rio Grande do Sul

o Anarchy in the south

• Invasion of the Argentinian north

The Triple Alliance

• Brazil, Argentina and Uruguai

o The Volunteer number oneo Finally feeling like brazilians

The Paraguay War• The Battle of Riachuelo

o The vital importance of controling the riverso Francisco Manuel Barroso Silvao Protected the province of Entre Rios, Argentinao Destroyed the naval force of Lopez

Patriotic Volunteers• “voluntários a pau e corda”• Promise of freedom

Dezembradas• São Fernando Massacre• Barão de Caixias

o Tuiutio Itororó

• Avaí• Angosturas• Lomas Valentinas• 1868

The Cordilheira Campaign

• Conde D’Eu

• A pupet president in Assuncióno Cirilo Antonio Rivarola

• The Hunt of Solano Lopez

• Violence everywhere

The End of Lopez• Never surrender• The destruction of the body• More violence• The sword

The After Math• More than 50,000 Brazilian soldiers were killed and

the costs of war were equivalent to eleven times the annual revenue of the government.

• However, the country was so prosperous that the government could pay off the debt in just ten years

• 90% of Paraguay’s population older then 20 years old were killed

• 18.000 Argentinians were killed in the conflict