Word: ballivian
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...mile front centering on strategic Fort Ballivian, Bolivian headquarters on the Pilcomayo River, every man, every gun and cartridge that either side could mobilize was gathered for one deciding battle. Some 50,000 bloodthirsty Paraguayans were attacking about 60,000 dogged Bolivians. Should Paraguay break through, she will win not only the Fort, but the best motor road in all South America, leading straight into Bolivia's rich Villa Monies oilfields. Paraguayan cavalry columns moved northeast in an effort to outflank the Fort and all night long the sky was yellow with shellfire, while swaying ambulances going back passed...
...vicious little Gran Chaco war between Bolivia & Paraguay last week reached its Gettysburg. Under French-trained General Estigarribia the Paraguayans, born short-end fighters, had harried the Bolivians northwestward across the jungle to the Pilcomayo River, backed them up against their last Chaco stronghold, Fort Ballivian. The Paraguayans planned to take Ballivian and stop. They found the Bolivians entrenched in open hayfields, for the first time in the war. General Estigarribia's artillery bombarded the trenches for two days. On the second the first wave of Paraguayans stumbled out into the hayfields in a close formation bayonet charge...