In 1982, historian Jorge Prata de Sousa was browsing the Army Archives in downtown ... the sick and wounded during the Paraguayan War, the largest armed conflict in the history of South America, ...
She fought alongside Lopez during the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870) in which Paraguay was fighting against ... age of 16 to a duplicitous French Army officer. In the book, they ...
Armies of the War of the Triple Alliance provides a short, concise treatment of the origins, outbreak, course, and consequences of the war, which Paraguay initiated, only to be ultimately overwhelmed ...