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First Battle of Pucará

Battle of Pucará

Date	February 5, of 1882
Location	Pucará, Junín-Perú
Result	Undecided

Belligerents

Chile

Peru

Commanders and leaders

Estanislao del Canto

Andrés A. Cáceres

Strength

2,000

1,230

Casualties and losses

13 killed, 17 wounded

21 killed, 24 wounded

War of the Pacific

Naval campaign
1st Iquique Chipana Pisagua 1st Callao 2nd Iquique Punta Gruesa Huáscar 1st Antofagasta 3rd Iquique Rímac 2nd Antofagasta Punta Arenas Angamos Pilcomayo Arica Naval Battle Rupture 2nd Callao
Land campaigns
Loa Line and Altiplano campaign Calama Río Grande Quillagua Tambillo Tarapacá campaign Pisagua Pampa Germania San Francisco Tarapacá Tacna and Arica campaign Ilo and Pacocha Moquegua Mollendo Los Ángeles Locumba Buenavista Tacna Arica Tarata Lynch Expedition Lima campaign Chilca Yerba Buena Bujama Humay El Manzano Rinconada de Ate San Juan and Chorrillos Miraflores Lima Chilean occupation of Peru Breña campaign 1881 San Jerónimo Letelier Expedition Sángrar Verrugas 1st Purhuay Calientes 1st Pachía Cieneguilla Motupe Guadalupe 1882 1st Pucará Acuchimay Sierralumi Huaripampa Llocllapampa Chupaca La Oroya 2nd Pucará Concepción San Pablo Tarmatambo 2nd Purhuay Huamantanga Crossing of the Andes 1883 Huamachuco Izcuchaca 2nd Pachía Arequipa-Puno Line Arequipa Titicaca Lake

Naval campaign

1st Iquique
Chipana
Pisagua
1st Callao
2nd Iquique
Punta Gruesa
Huáscar
1st Antofagasta
3rd Iquique
Rímac
2nd Antofagasta
Punta Arenas
Angamos
Pilcomayo
Arica
- Naval Battle
- Rupture
2nd Callao

Land campaigns

Loa Line and Altiplano campaign

Tarapacá campaign

Tacna and Arica campaign

Ilo and Pacocha
Moquegua
Mollendo
Los Ángeles
Locumba
Buenavista
Tacna
Arica
Tarata

Lynch Expedition

Lima campaign

Chilca
Yerba Buena
Bujama
Humay
El Manzano
Rinconada de Ate
San Juan and Chorrillos
Miraflores
Lima

Chilean occupation of Peru

Breña campaign

1881

San Jerónimo
Letelier Expedition
Sángrar
Verrugas
1st Purhuay
Calientes
1st Pachía
Cieneguilla
Motupe
Guadalupe

1882

1st Pucará
Acuchimay
Sierralumi
Huaripampa
Llocllapampa
Chupaca
La Oroya
2nd Pucará
Concepción
San Pablo
Tarmatambo
2nd Purhuay
Huamantanga
Crossing of the Andes

1883

Huamachuco
Izcuchaca
2nd Pachía

Arequipa-Puno Line

Arequipa
Titicaca Lake

The Battle of Pucará (Spanish: Batalla de Pucará) was fought on February 5, 1882, during the Sierra Campaign of the War of the Pacific. With a two-to-one superiority in numbers and even more in artillery, the Chilean army under the command of Colonel Estanislao del Canto was unable to destroy the little Peruvian army of General Cáceres, and withdrew to the town of Pucará leaving the Peruvian army to continue its strategic retreat.