Word: estigarribia
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...around Munoz. Only an occasional bombing plane tried to find a Paraguayan in the bog. In the close wet heat, under clouds of hard-biting ihenni flies, the men fought in spasms, stopped to pant, slap and rest. Against Bolivia's German management, Paraguayans had French-trained Jose Estigarribia. Retreating, they left cemeteries on whose fast-rotting headboards were names of Russian officers. General Kundt's objective was to cut off Fort Nanawa; the Paraguayans' to stop him at Nanawa's outlying "forts," Gondra and Falson...