Qualla: Battle of Yatay https://qualla.com/battle-of-yatay en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/z/d/battle-of-yatay-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Yatay https://qualla.com/battle-of-yatay Battle of Yatay: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-yatay/ Photo credit Manzano13, CC BY-SA 4.0. Three thousand men stood with their backs to a swollen stream and watched twelve thousand close in. Colonel Pedro Duarte had been ordered to hold the bank of the Uruguay River, then abandoned by his own commander to face the entire allied army alone. He could have fled. Instead, on the morning of August 17, 1865, near the Corrientes village of Paso de los Libres, he formed his lines among the flooded estates of Yatay and prepared to die fighting. Among the soldiers advancing toward him was a young Argentine lieutenant named Cándido López, sketching the scene in a notebook he would later turn into some of the only eyewitness paintings of the war.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/z/d/battle-of-yatay-wp/6dzd-battle-of-yatay-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Yatay: A War of Two Columns https://qualla.com/battle-of-yatay/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. The Paraguayan War began with ambition. President Francisco Solano López, fearing Brazilian expansion, sent two great columns south through Argentine territory in 1865 - one to seize the city of Corrientes, the other to strike at Brazilian lands along the Uruguay River. For a mom...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/z/d/battle-of-yatay-wp/6dzd-battle-of-yatay-a-war-of-two-columns.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Yatay: Abandoned on the Riverbank https://qualla.com/battle-of-yatay/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Estigarribia detached Duarte with roughly three thousand men to guard the Uruguay River, then marched on without him. When the allied general Venancio Flores joined forces with Wenceslao Paunero's troops on August 13, their combined army swelled to twelve thousand - nearly four t...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/z/d/battle-of-yatay-wp/6dzd-battle-of-yatay-abandoned-on-the-riverbank.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Yatay: Two Hours on Horseback https://qualla.com/battle-of-yatay/ Photo credit Luis Candido Lopez, Public domain. The battle opened at ten in the morning when allied infantry under Leon de Pallejas struck the Paraguayan line. Duarte seized the moment and counterattacked with nearly all his cavalry, inflicting hundreds of casualties and driving the attackers back. For two hours the fighting w...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/z/d/battle-of-yatay-wp/6dzd-battle-of-yatay-two-hours-on-horseback.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Yatay: The Cost https://qualla.com/battle-of-yatay/ Photo credit Luis Candido Lopez, Public domain. Of the roughly three thousand who had stood on that riverbank, the Paraguayans counted seventeen hundred dead, three hundred wounded, and twelve hundred taken prisoner. A few hundred swam the Uruguay River to escape. These were not statistics to the men who lived it - they were c...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/z/d/battle-of-yatay-wp/6dzd-battle-of-yatay-the-cost.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Yatay: What Remains https://qualla.com/battle-of-yatay/ Photo credit Luis Candido Lopez, Public domain. There is no grand monument on the field at Yatay - only the quiet bend of a stream near Paso de los Libres, the Uruguay River sliding past toward the Atlantic, and the flat green country of Corrientes that floods still when the rains come. The battle survives mostly in memory and...

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