The final stand of seventy seven Chileans high up in the Andes against a Peruvian force seventeen times their size on 9–10 July 1882.
Bias Warning: I lived 6+ years in Chile and I’m married to a Chilean. That being said, objectivity is my goal.
Here we go.
It all starts with mining.
Actually, it starts with messy borders. We’ll come back to mining in just a sec. Hold that thought.
