Order of battle at Chorrillos

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This is the order of battle for the Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos in 1881 during the War of the Pacific.

In modern use, the order of battle of an armed force participating in a military operation or campaign shows the hierarchical organization, command structure, strength, disposition of personnel, and equipment of units and formations of the armed force. Various abbreviations are in use, including OOB, O/B, or OB, while ORBAT remains the most common in the United Kingdom. An order of battle should be distinguished from a table of organisation, which is the intended composition of a given unit or formation according to the military doctrine of its armed force. As combat operations develop during a campaign, orders of battle may be revised and altered in response to the military needs and challenges. Also the known details of an order of battle may change during the course of executing the commanders' after action reports and/or other accounting methods as combat assessment is conducted.

Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos

The Battle of San Juan, also known as the Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos, was the first of two battles in the Lima Campaign during the War of the Pacific, and was fought on 13 January 1881. This battle is really a group of smaller, yet fierce confrontations at the defensive strongholds of Villa, Chorrillos, Santiago de Surco, San Juan de Miraflores, Santa Teresa and Morro Solar. The Chilean army led by Gen. Manuel Baquedano inflicted a harsh defeat on the Peruvian army commanded by the Supreme Chief Nicolás de Piérola. The Chilean triumph eliminated the first defensive line guarding Lima, and almost obliterated the Peruvian army defending it.

War of the Pacific South American war (1879–1884) involving Chile against Peru and Bolivia

The War of the Pacific, also known as the Saltpeter War and by multiple other names was a war between Chile and a Bolivian-Peruvian alliance. It lasted from 1879 to 1884, and was fought over Chilean claims on coastal Bolivian territory in the Atacama Desert. The war ended with victory for Chile, which gained a significant amount of resource-rich territory from Peru and Bolivia. Chile's army took Bolivia's nitrate rich coastal region and Peru was defeated by Chile's navy.

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Chilean Operations Army

Commander in Chief of the Chilean Army: GLD Manuel Baquedano González (37)
Total strength: 23,179 men

Marcos Maturana Chilean politician and general

Marcos Maturana del Campo was a Chilean military and political figure who served in the Chilean War of Independence and the War of the Confederation.

Cornelio Saavedra Rodríguez Chilean general

Cornelio Saavedra Rodríguez was a Chilean politician and military figure who played a major role in the Occupation of the Araucanía.

Ramón Allende Padín Chilean physician and politician

Ramón Allende Padín, nicknamed El Rojo, was a Chilean physician and political figure. The author of several important scientific publications, he also headed the Chilean Army's medical services during the War of the Pacific. Allende was of Basque descent.

I Division

Commodore Patricio Lynch Solo de Zaldívar, Chilean Navy (6)
Chief of Staff: Col. Gregorio Urrutia, Chilean Army (15)
Strength: 9.295 men

Patricio Lynch Chilean admiral

Patricio Javier de los Dolores Lynch y Solo de Zaldívar was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy and a rear admiral in the Chilean Navy, and one of the principal figures of the later stages of the War of the Pacific. He has been nicknamed the "Last Viceroy of Peru", and the Chinese slave-labourers he liberated from the Peruvian haciendas called him the "Red Prince" because of his red-hair.

Gregorio Urrutia Chilean general

Gregorio Urrutia was a Chilean military figure who played a major role in the later phase of the Occupation of Araucanía (1861–1883), leading Chilean forces that resisted and suppressed the Mapuche uprising of 1881.

Estanislao del Canto Chilean general

Estanislao del Canto Arteaga was a Chilean military figure who played a major role in the War of the Pacific (1879-1883) and the Chilean Civil War (1891). He also participated in the Occupation of the Araucanía (1861-1883) and the Chincha Islands War (1864-1865).

II Division

Col. Emilio Sotomayor Baeza
Strength: 5,970 men

III Division

Col. Pedro Lagos
Strength:

Reserve

Col. Aristides Martínez
Strength:

Peruvian Army

Supreme Commander in Chief: President Nicolás de Piérola

North Army

Gen. Ramón Vargas Machuca

I Army Corps

Col. Manuel Iglesias

  • 1st North Division Col. Mariano Noriega
    • 1st Peruvian Guards Infantry Battalion
    • Cajamarca No.3 Infantry Battalion
    • Ayacucho "9th December" 5th Infantry Battalion
  • 2nd North Division Col. Manuel Regino Cano
    • Tarma No.7 Infantry Battalion
    • 9th Infantry Battalion Callao
    • Libres de Trujillo No.11 Infantry Battalion
  • 3rd North Division Col. Pablo Arguedas
    • 13th Infantry Battalion "Junin"
    • 15th Infantry Battalion Ica
    • Libres de Cajamarca No.21 Infantry Battalion

II Army Corps

Col. Belisario Suarez

  • 4th North Division Col. Buenaventura Aguirre
    • Huanuco No.17 Infantry Battalion
    • Paucarpata No.19 Infantry Battalion
    • Jauja No.23 Infantry Battalion
  • 5th North Division Col. Benigno Cano
    • Ancash No.25 Infantry Battalion
    • Concepción No.27 Infantry Battalion
    • Zepita or Zuavos No.29 Infantry Battalion

Center Army

Col. Juan Nepomuceno Vargas

III Army Corps

Col. Justo Pastor Dávila

  • 3rd Center Division Col. Cesar Canevaro
    • 67th Infantry Battalion Piura
    • 23 December No.69 Infantry Battalion
    • Libertad No.71 Infantry Battalion
  • 5th Center Division Col. Fabian Merino
    • 85th Cajamarca Ranger Battalion
    • Unión No.87 Infantry Battalion
    • 89th Junín Rifle Infantry Battalion
  • Light Division Col. Manuel C. Bustamante, Peruvian Civil Guard
    • A and C Corps, Civil Guard
    • D and E Corps, Civil Guard
    • B Corps, Civil Guard

IV Army Corps

Col. Andrés Avelino Cáceres

  • 1st Center Division Col. Domingo Oyarza
    • 61st Lima Infantry Battalion
    • Canta No.63 Infantry Battalion
    • 28 July No.65 Infantry Battalion
  • 2nd Center Division Col. Manuel Pereyra
    • Pichincha No.73 Infantry Battalion
    • Piérola No.75 Infantry Battalion
    • La Mar No.77 Infantry Battalion
  • 4th Center Division Col. Lorenzo Iglesias
    • Arica No.79 Infantry Battalion
    • Manco Cápac No.81 Infantry Battalion
    • 83rd Ayachucho Infantry Battalion

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