Mato Grosso campaign
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| Mato Grosso campaign | |||||||
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| Part of the War of the Triple Alliance | |||||||
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| Paraguay | Uruguay, Argentina, Brasil |
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| Commanders | |||||||
| Francisco Solano López | |||||||
| War of the Triple Alliance |
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| Mato Grosso – Rio Grande do Sul – Corrientes – Riachuelo – Jataí – Tuyutí – Curupaity – Piquissiri – Campaign of the Hills – Cerro Corá – Acosta Ñu |
The Mato Grosso campaign was an early Paraguayan offensive in the War of the Triple Alliance. Paraguay captured the Brazilian province of Mato Grosso, but it was a Pyrrhic victory, since the attackers obtained little gain in it. The Province of Mato Grosso was scarcely populated and with no more than two hundred soldiers and officers to defend it in 1864.
