Pisagua Department information

Pisagua Department was a department in Tarapacá Province, Chile, from 1883 to 1974. It was ceded to Chile under the Treaty of Ancón, formerly being part...

The Battle of Pisagua ("Desembarco y combate de Pisagua"), was a landing operation of the War of the Pacific, fought on November 2, 1879, between Chile...

Other couples refused to be separated. Ida Straus, the wife of Macy's department store co-owner and former member of the United States House of Representatives...

22 January 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2014. Lessons of the Falklands. Department of the Navy (Report). DTIC. February 1983. ADA133333. Archived from the...

sugar. Piscola Blanca, a variation of Piscola in Chile with clear sodas. Pisagua Chilean Pisco with carbonated water. Pischela, another variation of Chilean...

northwards as planned after the fall of Pisagua, Daza, coming from Arica, decided in Camarones (44 km from Pisagua) to give up his part of the counterattack...

squadron sailed from Antofagasta to Pisagua to invade the Tarapacá desert. The defenders of the port of Pisagua, mostly Bolivians, resisted the landing...

Logística) 6th Divisional Logistic Regiment "Pisagua", (Regimiento Logístico Divisionario Nº 6 "Pisagua") in Arica 6th Signal Battalion "Tarapacá", (Batallón...

Villamontes (Tarija Department): 5th IR Campero, RI 20 Padilla, RC 3 Aroma, RA 3 Pisagua, Bat.Ing. 1 Chorolque. 4th AD, Camiri (Santa Cruz Department):, 6th Infantry...

the invasion of the Tarapacá department began. On November 2, the Chileans launched an amphibious operation at Pisagua and pushed the Allies offshore...

architect Thomas Andrews, the managing director of Harland and Wolff's design department; Edward Wilding, Andrews's deputy and responsible for calculating the...

synopsis (in Spanish, from Website of Peruvian military central command) The Forgotten Heroes The Chilean Navy Battle of Pisagua (Wikipedia: Spanish)...

and disembarkment at the small port of Pisagua and the Junin Cove, –some 500 km North of Antofagasta. At Pisagua, several landing waves Chilean troops...

as in the campaign of 1879 in this quarter, with a naval descent upon Pisagua followed by an advance inland to Dolores. The Congressional forces failed...

later of the Editorial del Pacífico. Tomic served as deputy for Arica, Pisagua and Iquique (1941–1949). When senator and poet Pablo Neruda was banned...

Villamontes (Tarija Department): 5th IR Campero, RI 20 Padilla, RC 3 Aroma, RA 3 Pisagua, 1st CEB Chorolque. 4th AD, Camiri (Santa Cruz Department):, 6th Infantry...

15 February 2013. SS Oceana sank on 16 March 1912 in collision with the Pisagua, which was towed into Dover. In Memoriam: Sir Francis McClean from earlyaviators...

Battle of the Caribbean. From 1943 to 1945, the Chilean prison camp of Pisagua became the site of wartime internment for citizens of enemy nations. Chile...

town the next morning. Then, Martínez returned to Ilo and sailed back to Pisagua on 2 January. After this reconnaissance, Sotomayor decided to attack Tacna...

of the country during the saltpetre boom, in the ports of Iquique and Pisagua. The "King of Saltpetre", John Thomas North, was the principal tycoon of...