South America's Bloodiest War: The Triple Alliance | Animated History

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[TheArmchairHistorian]

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[limer]

Glad to see South America getting some more coverage.

[nicolasescobararbelaez]

A kind of fun fact: the war seemed so brutal to other Latin American countries such as Colombia. That the Colombian parliament passed a law in which if Paraguay ceased to exist, every Paraguayan that stepped on Colombian soil will be granted Colombian citizenship

[zddxddyddw]

My ancestors were Lopez' cook and gardener. When the Allies were nearing Asuncion and the city was being evacuated they took the palace's silver cuttlery and fled. My great-grandmother would later sell that silver cuttlery to pay for treatment for her pneumonia, but it was fruitless.

[armandoventura]

Many times people pay close attention to conflicts in Asia, Europe and Africa, but in America in general there have also been interesting and extremely brutal combats

[omenaccipio]

Francisco Solano Lopez truly believed that after his death, the Paraguayan territories would be divided as a whole by Brazil an Argentina and that the República del Paraguay would cease to exist. He mentioned that many times before the Cerro Corá combat and that is the reason he said that when mortally wounded: "Muero con mi patria". "I die WITH my country" and not "I die FOR my country", as it should by expected as more natural.
He thought that Paraguay itself was mortally wounded as he died.

[irmaosmatos]

Not so Fun Fact: Brazilians weren't particulally fond of the war, but after the Paraguayans made a massacre/blodshed in one brazilian city and tortured people from one civilian ship the Brazilians were fervoroys to participate in the war. Kinda of a brazilian Pearl Harbor at the time.

[galatheumbreon]

This war is rarely talked about and I find it really interesting, memes aside about Paraguay losing nearly its entire male population

[arath]

Nice to see you talk about Latinamerican history, that's something that English-speaking channels don't do much. I'd suggest doing a video on the Mexican Revolution, considering how huge, yet overlooked, that war was

[Atilowski]

As a Brazilian Army Master Sgt, it is very nice (and rare) to see a non Brazilian talk about our historical military main events with so many accurate info. It was indeed a very bloody conflict, specially because of Lopez nasty strategies, that often raged enemies troops. When they (Paraguay) were met in disadvantage in the field...you can imagine. A sad and rarely spoken fact is that after the war Paraguay was left with almost no men alive to restore its normal population rates, since by the end of the war pretty much all males were forced to fight do death.
Thanks and congratulations.

[Bullwine]

Fun fact: The main reason Paraguay even exists to this day (as opposed to being completely wiped off the map) is due in part President Rutherford B. Hayes, to the point where a department (the equivalent of a province) of Paraguay is named after him.

So while Hayes is remembered as an exceedingly average president in the US (if he's even remembered at all, there's a reason he was featured in the Simpsons' "Mediocre Presidents" song), he still has a legacy in Paraguay to this day.

[PencilSticks]

One of the many things I find most interesting about the war is that US President Rutherford B. Hayes, who ironically is barely remembered in America itself, is celebrated in Paraguay due to his successful arbitration that prevented the country from being cannibalized by its neighbors. One of the departments in Paraguay was named "Presidente Hayes" in his honor.

[fritzfromsouth]

Not so fun fact:

In Paraguay, Children's Day is celebrated on August 16, which is a tribute to the Battle of Acosta Ñú (or Battle of Campo Grande), in which thousands of children who served in battalions lost their lives...

[butterfunger]

A video about the war of the pacific between Chile Bolivia and Peru would also be really cool

[red_hrlow]

I love how he covers non well known and/or not talked about wars.

[deoxy]

I'm Paraguayan and I was really surprised when I found this video, I've never seen a video of this quality talking about Paraguay's history!

[dubiouscollector]

My grandma's always tells histories that her grandma told her about the war, something I always remember is that Paraguayan refugees will run to Argentinian troops desperate to flee the Brazilian, for they had very little care for how they treated their prisoners.
Also you should cover the Bolivia-Paraguay war of 1932-35, apparently every Paraguayan soldier became Rambo at some point or at least that's what my grandma says.

[instrumentalistctfp]

"How much of your population are you willing to lose before you admit defeat?"
Paraguay: "Yes."

[majorearl]

By percentages, it could be considered one of the most destructive wars with upwards to 300, 000 Paraguayan casualties compared to their pre-war population of 450, 000. In terms of the US at the time with the Civil War, a pre-Civil War population of 31.45 Million, and the casualties for that being upwards over 1.6 Million or so, meaning the Paraguayans had upwards to 60% of their country as casualties while we had only around 5% or so.

[Laucron]

I love how the flag of the Argentine Confederacy looks like the Argentine flag but evil. We need to get back to that one