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 | The War of the Triple Alliance, also known as the Paraguayan War, was fought from 1864 to 1870, and was one of the bloodiest conflicts that occurred in the Americas. |
| The Paraguayan villages destroyed by the war were abandoned and the peasant survivors migrated to the outskirts of Asunción, dedicating themselves to the subsistence agriculture in the central region of the country. |
| The war was financed by the Bank of London and by Baring Brothers and N M Rothschild and Sons. |
| Ears and Conflicts of Brazil (5699 words) |
| Civil war broke out between the absolutist supporters of Miguel, the so-called "Miguelites," who took control of Lisbon, and the constitutionalists, who were aided by General John Carlos de Oliveira e Daun Saldanha (1791-1876) at Oporto. |
| The war devastated Paraguay, whose former population of about 525,000 was reduced to some 221,000, of whom oníy 29,000 were adult males; it was the bloodiest conflict in Latin American history. |
| The war caused financial havoc in Brazil, and mercenary troops mutinied in Rio (1828). |
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