Battle of Cerro Corá

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Battle of Cerro Corá
Part of the War of the Triple Alliance
Date March 1870 Location Cerro Corá, Paraguay Result Allied victory
Belligerents
Paraguay	Empire of Brazil
Commanders
Francisco Solano López   †	Chico Diabo
Strength
100-250	4,000

The battle of Cerro Corá was fought on 1 March 1870 on a hill with the same name, in the north of Paraguay. This was the last battle in the War of the Triple Alliance.

Landscape of Cerro Corá (Amambay, Paraguay), place of the end of the triple alliance war, as seen from the top of Cerro Muralla.

Estimatives claim that Solano López's personal guard had from 100 to 250 soldiers. The Brazilian troops were composed of a battalion of about 4,000 men. At the margin of the Aquidaban-Nigui stream Solano Lopez's troops were surrounded and defeated.

Lopez was killed by Brazilian's Imperial Army Corporal José Francisco Lacerda, better known as Chico Diabo.