The News From Paraguay by Lily Tuck

Author:Lily Tuck [Tuck, Lily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 0066209447
Google: 5F3S8RgQNUQC
Amazon: B000QTEA56
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2014-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

The handsome and arrogant Colonel Antonio Estigarribia and his 12,000 men crossed the Paraná River to Uruguayana to wait for General Wenceslao Robles and his troop of 25,000 soldiers to arrive. Together, the two forces would invade the Brazilian province of Río Grande do Sul and destroy the Allied army at the Brazilian–Banda Oriental border, but General Robles never arrived. Instead, when General Robles got word of the defeat at Riachuelo, without informing anyone, he decided to return to Corrientes; and Colonel Estigarribia, while waiting in vain for Robles, made the mistake of dividing his troops on either side of the Paraná. Immediately, the Allied forces took advantage and massacred the troops on one side of the river as the rest of Estigarribia’s soldiers, who were outnumbered as well as starving to death, watched helplessly from the other. Refusing to surrender, Estigarribia, who in addition to being arrogant was well read, wrote the Allies long pompous letters justifying himself:

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