Battle of Chipana

Chilean corvette Magallanes

Date	12 April 1879
Location	near Huanillos, Bolivia (present day Chile)
Result	Indecisive, Chileans completed only part of their mission.

Belligerents

Chile

Peru

Commanders and leaders

Juan José Latorre

Aurelio García

Strength

1 corvette

1 corvette
1 gunboat

War of the Pacific

Naval Campaign Chipana Iquique Punta Gruesa Angamos Scuttling of the Peruvian fleet Land Campaign Topáter San Francisco Tarapacá Los Ángeles Tacna Arica Chorrillos Miraflores Lima El Callao Sangrar Concepción Huamachuco

The Battle of Chipana took place on 12 April 1879, during the War of the Pacific between Chile and Peru. It was the first naval engagement between both navies and it took place in front of Huanillos, off the (then) Bolivian coast, as the Peruvian corvette Unión and gunboat Pilcomayo found the Chilean corvette Magallanes on its way to Iquique. After a two-hour running artillery duel, Unión suffered engine problems, the pursuit was called off and Magallanes escaped with minor damage. Magallanes was able to complete part of its mission of delivering commissioned papers to Iquique, but unable to complete its reconnaissance mission of finding if there were any guano ships still making commerce in the zone.

War of the Pacific

Participants

Allied	Peru Bolivia

South	Chile

Timeline

preliminary	Atacama border dispute Boundary Treaty of 1866 between Chile and Bolivia Secret treaty of alliance between Peru and Bolivia of 1873 Boundary Treaty of 1874 between Chile and Bolivia

1879	Naval Maneuvers Naval Campaign of the War of the Pacific Blockade of Iquique Naval Battles Battle of Chipana Battle of Iquique Battle of Punta Gruesa Battle of Angamos Amphibious Battle of Pisagua Land Battles Land Campaign of the War of the Pacific Battle of Topater Tarapacá Campaign Battle of Tarapacá Battle of San Francisco

1880	Tacna and Arica Campaign Battle of Arica Bombardment of Callao Battle of Los Ángeles Battle of Tacna Order of Battle at Tacna

1881	Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos Chorrillos order of battle Battle of Miraflores Occupation of Lima Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina Battle of Sangra

1882	Battle of La Concepción Battle of Pucará

1883	Battle of Huamachuco

Ending	Treaty of Ancón Treaty of Valparaíso Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1904 between Chile and Bolivia Treaty of Lima (1929)

Aspects

General	Toro Submarino

Aftermath	Chilean–Peruvian maritime dispute Puna de Atacama dispute

Personal

Peru	Miguel Grau Francisco Bolognesi Andres Caceres Mariano Ignacio Prado Alfonso Ugarte Mariano Bustamante Nicolás de Piérola Lizardo Montero Flores Melitón Carvajal Mariano Bustamante Juan Buendía Juan Fanning Juan Guillermo More Miguel Iglesias Mariano Ignacio Prado Francisco García Calderón Leoncio Prado Gutiérrez

Bolivia	Eduardo Abaroa Ladislao Cabrera Narciso Campero Hilarion Daza

Chile	Irene Morales José Luis Araneda Carrasco Manuel Baquedano Santiago Amengual Balbontín Orozimbo Barbosa Manuel Bulnes Pinto Estanislao del Canto Ignacio Carrera Pinto Carlos Condell Luis Cruz Martínez Erasmo Escala Alejandro Gorostiaga Tomás Guevara Pedro Lagos Juan José Latorre Patricio Lynch Arturo Prat Pedro Julio Quintavalla Eleuterio Ramírez Molina Cornelio Saavedra Rodríguez Roberto Silva Renard Robert Souper Howard Hernán Trizano Luis Uribe Gregorio Urrutia José Velásquez Bórquez Juan Williams Rebolledo Manuel Montt Torres Jorge Montt Álvarez Domingo Santa María Aníbal Pinto Alberto Blest Gana

Others	Abel Dupetit-Thouars Roque Saenz Pena

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