Paraguayan War | 3 Minute History

War of the Triple Alliance

[@MFvanBylandt]

That wars is seriously devastating, 60% of that whole country died.

[@arthurlibritannia1865]

That is a lie,there was no comom cense of the pop of paraguay at the time

[@marcoswillianl]

+Mike De Jong To be honest, it was 75%... 3/4 of paraguay died.

[@bubbaleaks3853]

90% of the male population died

[@gaelowskn2680]

se 90% da população masculina morreu só sobro deficiente mental e idoso incapacitado, na quele tempo não tinha nenhuma organização que fazia a contagem da população, não se sabe até hj quantas pessoas existiam na quele tempo, é verdade que morreu muita gente mas 90% é ridículo, nem na segunda guerra mundial um pais perdeu tanta gente proporcionalmente.

[@thomasemond2173]

More like 70 percent

[@ValeriaRodriguez-gi2qn]

Fact from a Paraguayan abt the paraguayan war: Since most of the men died in battle, children (teenagers and such) went into the battle fields dressed as soldiers so the enemies wouldn’t know they were kids. Since most of the male population had died by the end of the war, women were basically the only reason the country didn’t fall apart completely.

[@dicitencellovoyais7914]

the war was destined to happen since the birth of Paraguay because they hated Brazilians since the time of the Bandeirantes (fortune hunters who broke the Treaty of Tordesillase expanded the Brazilian territory) who attacked them, they said that as punishment the god Tupã transformed these Bandeirantes in blacks people because of their actions, they started to hate Brazilians and it was only in 1864 when Solano Lopez had the largest army in South America, that they could empty that hate against Brazilians, the Paraguayan Aca Iboty were true suicidal psychopaths but the war is made of strategy and that Lopez did not understand, he simply sent men to the battlefields without strategy, when he played the strategist it was even worse as we see in the battle of Tuiuti where he lost 18,000 of his best men (with intellectual capital, etc) and Brazilians lost 3,000 volunteers farmers and slaves african.

[@assgrabber5473]

Imagine being one of the few men to return. You'd be in heaven ngl

[@mikea1127]

Repopulating the country must have been a tough job, but I'm sure the teen males were up to it. :-)

[@ValeriaRodriguez-gi2qn]

@@mikea1127 sadly many of them died in war. a lot of the people left in the country were either old people who didnt even go to war or men with extreme ptsd and a lot of damage to their bodies. like I said, a lot of the teens died in battlefields bc there werent enough actual soldiers to send out

[@ValeriaRodriguez-gi2qn]

@@assgrabber5473 I doubt that, especially if u suffer from severe ptsd and god knows what damage has been done to your body and ppl expect u to carry the country on ur back? id wanna die lol

[@MilikUrdap]

OMG, for the first time an english-speaking video that explains the greatest military conflict in Latin America without bias... (considering 3 minutes time). Congrats.

[@JabzyJoe]

+Emilio Urdapilleta I had a look just now, but can't find much. I'm sure we're missing something

[@thepenguinwarriors4167]

The Sentinel What biases would an English speaker have? The Falklands war is mostly forgiven or forgotten and I doubt any Brits care about Paraguay.

[@tophatproductions3031]

What music is used in these videos?

[@JabzyJoe]

Nevada City

[@MilikUrdap]

The british people is fair and just. The british government is a different thing. English-speaking countries usually don't care about the versions of the real combatants, and even less the version of Paraguay.

[@arwing20]

This paraguay guy wasn't particular smart. Lets fight all our neighbours at once, what could go wrong?

[@SetuwoKecik]

Idk, israel does the same against some arab nations but won. I wonder what's wrong. Still, its sad though.

[@TheLuismaBeaTle]

arwing20 it’s because the triple alliance was planned in advance. Why else would they commit flat out genocide? They wanted paraguay to disappear

[@TheLuismaBeaTle]

But yeah he wasn’t the brightest strategist, but he did went to study in a french military academy (which at the time was like the best one) so he must’ve known a thing or two 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@mvmsma]

@@SetuwoKecik The difference is that Israel was the defender. Paraguay was the aggressor.

[@pinguimhbs]

Immagine that for Brazil that reagion was almost unreachable, weeks of march over unoccupied territory, if he could invade and fortify fast, more brazilan soldiers would die marching than fighting. His mistake was dragging argentina over the war, he was betting that the Argentina would use the opportunity to attack or at least let Brazil be weakened instead of reacting to him. He did not expect that Ag and Br were already aligned.

[@Kogaion100]

Paraguay with about 550.000 people fought with 3 states (2 of the biggest countries in latin America) and lost more than half of it's population..now that is what you call Sparta of the 1800's..R.I.P

[@GFBR1]

This war could become a hell of a TV series or movie

[@julienroussel9574]

I wouldn't glorify this idea since, well, Paraguay lost many MANY things in this war.

[@sfsreiq]

The difference is that Sparta could win wars, Paraguay just bombed itself lol

[@gabrieltoews4479]

I was born in Paraguay and this is possibly our worse and most disappointing time in my countrie's history

[@goran4204]

Wir sind Verloren japairo nde brasilero ruin fascista

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@@goran4204 What? xD

[@---.-----]

As a brazilian I can tell, your people fought with honour, they were just following a bad leader... You should be proud of your blood instead of being ashamed by that man and his crazy ambitions

[@owenguerrero8992]

I was born in paraguay too and i can say our people were foolish to follow a war that seems impossible to win.

[@gebermotta2558]

For Brazil It was the best time of their lifes

[@pinkdouche]

Brazil: It's over Paraguay, i have the high ground! Paraguay: You underestimate my power! Brazil: Don't try it. Paraguay: Ahhhhhhh. Brazil: *Chopp Paraguay in to pieces.*

[@letherbel5605]

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[@ossnix5370]

Plot twist: Nowadays Brazil donate old military equipament for Paraguay to have its armed forces better equiped.

[@Auriverde258]

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[@julianasilva6946]

@@ossnix5370 what is the source of that information?

[@ossnix5370]

@@julianasilva6946 brazilian armed.forces

[@caramelmousse8509]

"However, Lopez..." is quite a common theme, huh

[@Ragmulokos]

This war is very studied in Brazilian curriculae, because it strenghtened the army to the point where they would play a huge role on politics, helping in a coup on 1889, and even installing a military dictatorship on 1964. In here it is also said that the destruction of Paraguayan population was exclusively Brazilian fault, does that proceed?

[@Gui1The]

+Rômulo C. Yes the war was almost exclusively brazilian later on

[@Honkler270]

the army made for the war helped in the coup

[@willianyano8596]

+Rômulo C. Solano Lopéz has sent kids to the battlefield , and not to play.. battlefield .

[@sidwinter295]

i`ve read about 5 books on the subject and my opinion is this, not really, the overwhelming majority of the population that perished was due to famine and disease, the insistence on the continuity of the war by the paraguayan leadership even when defeat was certain has a lot of responsibility for the death tool, in 1867 when the war was far from over and the allied armies were stagnated south of humaita and hadn't even touched paraguayan most populated and resouce rich regions disease and famine were already rampant throughout the country claiming countless lifes, the logistical challenge of the war was overwhelming for a nation with such a small population and limited resources, the paraguayan leadership imposed draconian measures to ensure the allocation of resources and personal for the continuity of the war, in one instancy hundreds of officers were executed for opposing the continuity of the conflict by the paraguayan leadership, and in the later years of the war the paraguayan goverment was fielding a huge amount of child soldiers, also paraguay had to sustain a standing army that fluctuated beteween 40-80.000 troops during the conflict with a population that most conservative estimatives put at 450.000-700,000, cattle and grain to feed such a force placed a monstruous tool on the civil society, and we must always remember massive mortality due to dieseases was a sad reality of most of the XIX century wars, just look at the crimean war a decade earlier for every 10 french soldiers that perished only one died in action, 9 perished to diseases.

[@Ragmulokos]

vitor granha Great answer

[@bloodypleasant5225]

I'd love to see more videos about South American history

[@baluarte_ssa2571]

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[@yfelipehg439]

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[@rafaelwiltshire4046]

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[@favelachan]

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[@Denes300]

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[@v.santos7035]

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[@dc4296]

in Brazil this war is very important because after it was victorious, the Brazilian Army established its own influence in the political sphere. this would become very relevant later on for it enabled the army to stage a coup that wold create the first Republic and would also nfluence another coup in 1964 that create d a military regime that lasted 20 years

[@alexandersokolov7722]

I'm Russian, please don't be so rough about the mistakes i might commit, but as far as i've studied, the paraguayan war AKA Tripple Alliance War, wasn't just Brazilian, Argentinian or Paraguayan fault alone, all countries had their share of fault, killing, pillage, and other attrocities were made in both sides, When Paraguay invaded Brazil they looted, murdered and raped, so did Brazil and the other Allies (mostly Argentinians) Brazilians killed children and women, Paraguay not only used kids in the war, but also it is said that kids were used as human child to protect Solano. This wasn't a war for, Honor, Patriotism, Freedom, Independence., and anything else, for what it looked more like, was a war for Peter II's revenge over Paraguayan invasion, and Lopéz was a Dictator that made Paraguay sink, so No Heroes in this one, and... what's the point of wasting time here in KZbin comment section trying to convince some people over a near useless matter?

[@Gabriel-sdf]

That I coudn't have said any better, and in a war, your main objective is to capture the enemy country capital, even Solano knew, that wasn't much of an option, i think what he'd really wanted was to strengthen Paraguay's position to sue peace with Brazil over a treaty they got a few years earlier, but that propably enraged Peter II, and possibly lead him into want revenge.

[@guilhermeroyama8842]

Peter II was a great leader and a very peaceful man. Solano Lopez left to the brazillian emperor no choice but retaliate,and sadly,the Paraguayan people paid the price for their "illustrous leader". P.S. besides,what the hell was he thinking? that he could simply start a war against the country with the most powerful Armed Forces of the South Hemisphere and one of the best in the world during that time and win? come on,the man was no dreamer,he was a lunatic....

[@Igormntt]

Peter II was the greatest brazilian of all times.

[@aguilanegra1502]

That´s not true. Paraguayan Army at that time was one of the most stronger armies, with troops and officials trained and equipped in Prussia. Pedro II provoked the war with the invasion of Uruguay in support of Venancio Flores rebells, overthrowing a democratic ellected goverment. The defeat of the paraguayan forces was because of the use of ironclad warships by the brazilian navy, the only armada in southamerica with such ships. Besides the British empire send a lot of money cause they want to wipe out the great industrial development of Paraguay, considered a bad example for southamerica. Finally, the Brazilian Army was useless without the Montevideo port, that´s why Pedro II invaded Uruguay in the first place: to gain a forward base to attack Paraguay.

[@dompedroii9303]

That commentary is just stupid, Paraguay doesnt have coast, how the hell Paraguay lost because the brazilian navy?

[@MilikUrdap]

Let me tell you more historical facts about the matter. Argentina wasn't neutral (as it is correctly hinted in the video). Argentina openly supported the uruguayan "colorados" that were enemies of the uruguayan "blancos" (allies of Paraguay). And while Argentina denied Paraguay permission to use its territory to send troops to Uruguay, allowed Brazil to use its territory to send troops against Paraguay. It was a blatant act of belligerence against Paraguay. And the alliance against Paraguay was signed before May 1865, in "Puntas del Rosario", June 1864 and ratified in January 1865. By the way, all the armies that fought in the conflict were not-so-greatly armed (although the brazilian navy had very modern ships). Of course, what amazes the most is the figure of the paraguayan side in the war and during the allied occupation (that lasted from 1869 until 1878). To the 250.000 military casualties, you add another 300.000 civilians who died of diseases, starvation and other issues, and you got 550.000 deaths (around 50-60% of the population, according to which source you look for). Many usually wonder why the paraguayans fought so desperately and gallantly. It was because they knew they would eventually lose their property in the hands of the invaders, which eventually happened. Not only Paraguay lost territory with Brazil and Argentina, but internally, private landowners from Brazil and Argentina took control of the lands of the paraguayans.

[@JabzyJoe]

+Emilio Urdapilleta It's hard to fit everything in so thanks for that.

[@Funk2Funky]

+Emilio Urdapilleta Well, that's a fine argument, but it sounds too nationalistic. Argentina's case was way more complex than that, Argentina at the time was a loose confederation, just like the USA back then, their provinces were largely independent and usually fought each other in some power struggles. Dos Rios province was rival to the central power in Buenos Aires, so Solano expected them to aid in the Paraguayan side. After Paraguay invaded Brazil with little opposition, Brazil got closer with the Buenos Aires government, which thought that Paraguay was trying to get a sea-port. Solano wasn't being expansionist but Argentina and Brazil feared so. After they reached an agreement, Brazil was allowed to pass through Argentinian borders, meanwhile the Dos Rios province didn't stop the Brazilian army fearing that if Paraguay were to lose the war they would also lose power and prestige aiding them. I can't really say about the army's morale and why they fought so hard, but Paraguayan losses are to blame Solano for the most part. Paraguay was cut from its resources and their army was slaughtered again and again, it didn't stop him from conscripting almost any men he could get. Even when Paraguayan loss was eminent, Solano kept fighting, after Paraguayan defeat was a reality, Solano kept fighting. Destroying his country infrastructure and killing more and more of his men. Solano didn't lose Paraguayan land, they were disputed land, just like the Chaco region, that Paraguay also "lost". While there were Paraguayans in the whole region, so were Brazilians and Argentinian people. Borders are permeable, and changes from time to time, it was specially true back in the time of the Paraguayan war. In the region, there was little to no government, if you wanted a piece of land, you just had to chop the vegetation in it. It is obvious that would people from all around in the region, every country wanted the region, but none had the means to actually enforce any law there. After the war ended, Brazil and Argentina got the regions officially as war demands, and the person to blame there is, again, Solano, who started the war.

[@adrianamadeira19]

The Sentinel You sound like a Paraguayan Solano apologist.

[@Joleyn-Joy]

Dude 70% of Paraguayan land was privately owned by Lopez. And no, Argentina did not give permission to Brazil, it neglected both.

[@mvmsma]

Well, let me tell you something. Government propaganda is not qualified as "historical fact"

[@lblake11]

Summary of World History: A bunch of psychopaths with power fighting and killing each other over invisible lines on a map.

[@seriousstuff7059]

Summary of World History: Nations with armies fighting and killing each other over resources on a planet.

[@octaviosardi3337]

Spike Blake si asi mismo los lideres deberian pelear sus propias guerras solos sin involucran a la gente inocente que no tiene nada que ver con los conflictos!!

[@thomasemond2173]

Summary of World History: Nations with armies fighting and killing each other for actual reasons

[@mehmetcaneren4042]

@@thomasemond2173 could you please go ahead and tell me the ''actual'' reason of the Great War? It was a bullshit drag where one prince died and russia suddenly decided to defend serbia for no reason at all despite serbs clearly being at fault for not turning the assassin in. Why were ottomans , british or Americans in that war? hell even japan was in the war, all of them had bullshit reasons to join and steal land from each other at the cost of blood.

[@ohadhoffman7078]

@@mehmetcaneren4042 "don't you know the war started because of the villainous Huns and they're empire building! "

[@gabrielfrancisco3055]

Viva Caxias! Viva o Império!

[@DomPedro1822]

VIVA

[@ryantheroman4331]

Gabriel Francisco Ave Glória! Ave Império!

[@Honkler270]

sai daki pedro I seu bosta so seu filho que foi bom pro brasil

[@rafamilk1]

hur dur

[@Igormntt]

Ave Glória, Ave Império!

[@mrmapperil8144]

Wait, Paraguay had a NAVY? HOW?

[@arthurlibritannia1865]

I'm brazilian and they had only one war ship.

[@KingBoooo]

There's something called rivers you know

[@mrmapperil8144]

King Boo Who needs a whole navy for Rivers?

[@KingBoooo]

MrMapperIL Countries that don't have access to the sea but need to protect its rivers.

[@SantomPh]

+MrMapperIL a navy can protect lakes and rivers as well as go on the ocean. Paraguay has access to ocean shipping via the mightly Parańa river, thus a navy (which has rights to use the river to get to the ocean). Bolivia is crazier, they lost their coast to Chile but maintains a navy on lake Titicaca and has sailors as the President's honor guard.

[@jorelemes]

No mention of the battle of Tuyuti, which was the biggest and most important battle, which set the siege of Humaitá?

[@luisarruda3061]

Paraguay wasn’t an industrialized nation, it’s economy was entirely agrarian. And that so-called “genocide” wasn’t Brazil’s fault, afterall, it was Solano who forcefully conscripted everyone on his country despite knowing defeat was certain.

[@DeclinedMercy]

Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay signed a secret treaty that none of them could surrender until all 3 nations agreed to it. The treaty was eventually leaked to the press by mistake and so Paraguay knew that surrender was not an option. People blast Solano as an idiot who should have given up but it wasn't really an option and a Paraguayan defeat might have resulted in Paraguay being annexed by Brazil and/or Argentina. "ARTICLE VI The allies pledge themselves solemnly not to lay down their arms unless by common accord, nor until they have overthrown the present Government of Paraguay, nor to treat with the enemy separately, nor sign any Treaty of peace, truce, armistice, or Convention whatsoever for putting an end or suspending the war, unless by a perfect agreement of all." As for the reason Paraguay attacked Brazil, Brazil had invaded Uruguay and Uruguay's port city of Montevideo was the only port on the east side of South America that was not controlled by Brazil or Argentina. Uruguay's independence was necessary to ensure the viability of Paraguay, which would have no means to trade with the outside world except at the mercy of its two greatest rivals, who would naturally leverage this power to influence Paraguayan politics. Paraguay warned Brazil not to invade Uruguay and it did anyways despite Paraguay having the more powerful military. Their options were to attack or total involuntary isolation. Argentina was invaded because it was proclaiming neutrality despite allowing Brazil's military access while denying Paraguay similar and much more necessary access. Argentina had already covertly taken Brazil's side in the war. Paraguay did not cause this war, Brazil and Argentina did.

[@usuarionaoidentificado9918]

@@DeclinedMercy No,it was in Brazil's self interest to keep Paraguay as a buffer between itself and Argentina.

[@DeclinedMercy]

@@usuarionaoidentificado9918 There are no mind readers. He had every reason to believe they would annex Paraguay. Brazil and Argentina did discuss splitting Paraguay between them and Argentina was in favor of it.

[@usuarionaoidentificado9918]

@@DeclinedMercy No,Argentina proposed and Brazil rejected.

[@DeclinedMercy]

@@usuarionaoidentificado9918 like I said, there is no way Solano could have known Brazil wasn't interested in annexing Paraguay, especially given the treaty declaring that all sides need to agree to any surrender.

[@Kianglekable]

Back when Brazil was an engine for progress in South America

[@matiasbarrios2555]

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[@dicitencellovoyais7914]

In 1851, the Argentine Confederation declared war on the Empire of Brazil, The Caudillo Juan Manuel de Rosas, said: "Poor Brazilians, I will make your emperor my butler". In 1852, gauchos loyal to Pedro II and Uribez marched triumphantly in Buenos Aires, while Rosas fled in disguise and embarked on an English ship. Before leaving Argentina for England, he said: “It was not the people who brought me down. It was the monkeys, the Brazilians''

[@elemperadordemexico]

@@dicitencellovoyais7914 Rosas was butthurt

[@comicsstation8148]

I'm Brazilian and This War Is not fault of Brazil our Dom Pedro II This war is fault of Solano!

[@rdzr1kinpin]

thats what your goverment told you in school when you where a dumb little kid

[@comicsstation8148]

what?! Paraguay invaded Mato grosso Killing and stoled many brazilians,Brazil never wanted war

[@rdzr1kinpin]

+Comics station sorry brasil started the war and then they come back after rape the womens left and steal everything that's worth something, all is brasil fault and argentina and uruguay and some say england

[@comicsstation8148]

BRAZIL DIDN'T START THE WAR,Dom Pedro II just defend your honor!

[@rdzr1kinpin]

My history teacher once tell me that one of his friend from brazil came to paraguay and he show him all the places and in the palace hi said tho him that those cannons where made to kill brazillians and he replied that brazillians came here to help us after the war and yeah that are all lies sorry but your goverment lie about that war brasil did start the war

[@williamtaylor750]

I've read online some weird shit about corruption in Brazil nowadays, but from what i read about the Paraguayan war, Emperor Dom Peter II of Brazil paid with his own money the whole campaign, such an irony!

[@adelinethibault1245]

LOL, if that's true why did they depose the emperor then? it seems stupidity, given the fact Brazil was growing during Imperial era faster than any South American nation, remember, never overthrow a stable Monarchy just to impose a chaotic and crappy republic, shit happens, well look at Iraq and Egypt for an example.

[@alexandersokolov7722]

Plus they get to lose that cool monarchy flag, that looks cooler than the republican one!

[@williamtaylor750]

That is true! the Monarchy flag of Brazil looks WAY better than the republican one!

[@FelipePetersBerchielli]

First, there are a lot of exagerations over the Empire, really, brazillians gloat about having the second largest navy and the fourth largest economy back then, but those are plain lies, the country had a lot of problems during that era, second, the monarchy was overthrown without the help of the people, actually the people was caught by surprise too, in 1889 the army deposed the monarchy and instituted the republic due to their own agenda, the people who bare no love of the monarchy also(otherwise they would fight to put them back) just watched in awe all that happening.

[@laudimf]

Dom Pedro II was the best, no other president will do what he did for Brazil, sadly 1889 happened, and Brazil is a third world country now :/ we could be like France, British or America nowadays but 1889 happened.

[@incognito_mode5741]

Paraguay: 3rd Reich Argentina: USA Uruguay: France and UK Brazil: USSR

[@cachorrodjamba]

*HYMN OF THE BRAZILIAN EMPIRE* Já podeis da Pátria filhos Ver contente a mãe gentil Já raiou a liberdade no horizonte do Brasil Já raiou a liberdade Já raiou a liberdade no horizonte do Brasil Brava gente brasileira, longe vá, temor servil Ou ficar a Pátria livre ou morrer pelo Brasil Ou ficar a Pátria livre ou morrer pelo Brasil Os grilhões que nos forjava da perfídia astuto ardil Houve mão mais poderosa zombou, deles o Brasil Houve mão mais poderosa Houve mão mais poderosa, zombou deles o Brasil Brava gente brasileira, longe vá, temor servil Ou ficar a Pátria livre ou morrer pelo Brasil Ou ficar a Pátria livre ou morrer pelo Brasil Não temais ímpias falanges que apresentam face hostil Vossos peitos, vossos braços são muralhas do Brasil Vossos peitos, vossos braços Vossos peitos, vossos braços são muralhas do Brasil Brava gente brasileira, longe vá, temor servil Ou ficar a Pátria livre ou morrer pelo Brasil Ou ficar a Pátria livre ou morrer pelo Brasil Parabéns, ó brasileiro, já com garbo juvenil Do universo entre as nações resplandece a do Brasil Do universo entre as nações Do universo entre as nações resplandece a do Brasil Brava gente brasileira, longe vá, temor servil Ou ficar a Pátria livre ou morrer pelo Brasil Ou ficar a Pátria livre ou morrer pelo Brasil

[@lucky_342]

no... no

[@thedude5756]

Pésima comparación, ponte a leer para no hacer comentarios tan estúpidos.

[@Soulbotagem-BR]

Paraguai = Polônia Argentina = França Uruguai = Áustria Brasil = URSS

[@gjdjdtht]

These videos are perfect. The enigmatic music and the animations that are slightly eerie, it just makes you focus more on what is going on. Meanwhile, I'm focusing on typing this lol.

[@brenno344]

Interesting South America"! Anything about Brazil-Portugal? Or England in the Mediterraneum? Cool that we always want mooore :))

[@kaptainkobold2512]

ChessArt If theirs going to be an other war covered in South America I suggest, souly on the entertainment of it's name, that Jabzy does The Lobster War. Yes there is a war named The Lobster War. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster_War

[@kaptainkobold2512]

Nowy Banana Actually scratch that there was no fighting just mobilization, in that case I vote for the 1891 Chilean Civil War. But Jabzy it's up to you. your content creator. good video by the way.

[@JabzyJoe]

Person Persington I'm afraid I already have my next videos made or at least the script written - Unification of Germany, Barbary Wars and Chinese Civil War. Once they're done I'll begin my research into the Chilean Civil War.

[@kaptainkobold2512]

Jabzy Well again that's ok your the content creator I'm sure they'll all be good. :)

[@deadpoolcomics]

Jabzy Think you could talk about the mexican revolution too?

[@QuesoPortSalut]

Could you do the cross of the Andes by San Martin? he took on the spanish occupied countries of Sount America in 1817 and is a national hero of 3 countries. Love your work!

[@thelasthandbook6704]

I've seen this war used as an example why the smartest thing Robert E. Lee ever did was surrender at Appomatox Court House rather than trying to fight an extended guerilla war at the end of the US Civil War. It probably would have ended much the same way this did.

[@marcusbierman5310]

I've been waiting for this one. Good job!

[@LordDim1]

Can you do a video on the first sino-Japanese war?

[@devplasna7188]

I was so confused as to how Paraguay could use a navy, but then I realized that rivers exist.

[@BountyFlamor]

60%? how could that happen?

[@MegaVictor1129]

BountyFlamor slaughter of innocents,and ALL of the adult male population were killed,making birth rates DROP fast

[@BountyFlamor]

damn, the nazis would be jealous of this feat.

[@TheChelus]

BountyFlamor and women and children were forced to fight

[@Honkler270]

BountyFlamor brazil was doing SO MUCH WAR CRIMES THINK MUCH when the war was overonly 15% of the male population on paraguay was alive yea that is tiny

[@giovaniabade9722]

luis Felipe The paraguayan dictator also forced children to fight, dont be so against ur own country dude

[@rocknrollkid90]

Could you review, “The Chaco War” and “The Paraguayan Civil Wars of 1922 and 1947?”

[@EL_URUGUAYO_MV]

sorry paraguay :(

[@capitanbado7692]

Arthur Arthur Que decís? te pensas que López invadió Brasil porque se le canto las pelotas hacerlo? no te comas el cuento de los brazucas. Paraguay invade Brasil justamente porque Paraguay quería ayudar al gobierno blanco uruguayo, López advirtió al Brasil que cualquier intento de desestabilizar los gobiernos del estado de la plata, sería tomado como atentatorio contra el Paraguay, pero no, Brasil no le importó una mierda e invade y derroca el gobierno blanco uruguayo aliado de López, derrocamiento que el imperio del Brasil logra gracias a la ayuda del traidor Mitre. El que comenzó todo este quilombo fue el imperio del Brasil, siempre fue el imperio del Brasil.

[@capitanbado7692]

***** López imperialista? el único país que tenía ambiciones imperialistas en ese tiempo era Brasil.. López sabía que con el derrocamiento del único aliado paraguayo, Brasil tendría el camino libre para invadir Paraguay, junto al nuevo aliado brasileño, el gobierno de Mitre.. Brasil tenía territorios en disputa con Paraguay, y la única forma para asegurar su victoria fue la de acabar con su único aliado, el partido blanco uruguayo, ahora entiendes del porqué López consideraba un atentatorio contra el Paraguay el golpe de estado en Uruguay?

[@capitanbado7692]

***** Exacto por eso no discuto mucho con los brasileños, nunca aceptan la barbarie que cometieron..

[@dompedroii9303]

Capitán Bado vocês atacaram nosso povo primeiro. Esperavam o que depois de tantas mortes?

[@capitanbado7692]

#BolsonaroPresidente 2018 Atacamos su pueblo porque Brasil derrocó al partido blanco, aliado del Paraguay! ese acto constituyó la rotura total de la no agresión paraguaya-brasileña.. la pregunta aquí es.. porque Brasil fue a meterse en asuntos internacionales donde nada tenía que ver?..

[@DaisyGeekyTransGirl]

0:52 And so Paraguayan diplomacy began after Lopez saw a magic trick.

[@dinoleox1]

Very nice video man, u made a great video about the war! I like the draws, but, the Brazilian Empire unifoms are wrong (we had two "white stripes" like the argentinians) Also, since 1866 almost 60%-80% of the troops were imperial soldiers, the argentinian army was almost destroyed (but still managed to give some good support with their excellent cavalry)and the Uruguayan army was almost only simbolically (So,you can divide the war in the Paraguay vs Tripple Alliance time and Paraguay vs Empire of Brazil time) Again,nice video,your channel seem to be nice!

[@ceniralinhares6262]

It was not a triplece alliance, it was Brazil alone.

[@ignaciokelly2624]

Dino M. Pure nonsence, actually Brazil have got more loses than Argentina.

[@orealista7524]

*NAMORAL, QUEM É DOIDO DE DESAFIAR OS 2 MAIORES PAISES LATINO AMERICANOS EM UMA SO CARTADA ?* Pqp hein

[@thedude5756]

Convido voce para ler mais sobre a historia dessa guerra e nao falar burrises

[@Soulbotagem-BR]

México é o segundo maior país latino...

[@SgtZekeMitsubish]

Cara... Aí já é de mais

[@glennzoo]

Yugoslav War please :D

[@user-vw2jq3to5e]

+Glenn de Groot | War is terrible, no happy faces please :(

[@sc18594]

War is terrible but learning is fun :D

[@IVR0609]

UP

[@pyromania1018]

This war deserves more attention. Lopez was basically Hitler; most viral men in Paraguay were killed; and it allowed Brazil's emperor to get the abolition ball rolling, though it would take almost two decades to reach the finish line.

[@aceous99]

war is HELL... and sometimes STUPID.

[@Honkler270]

+aceous99 cough lobster war cough brazil vs france cough brazil won

[@painterforbeginners9613]

One of your saddest videos yet best video I love this video

[@randombrit3779]

Here in Brazil if you piss we off, we will do crazy things.

[@eshaansarkar2017]

Finally found a historian who cares about South America.

[@anonymousanonymous7250]

Actually, over 70% of the Paraguayan population died.

[@BritishPrivateer]

90% male

[@Honkler270]

60% male

[@mapasinterativos2796]

anonymous anonymous 85℅ male

[@BritishPrivateer]

28,000 males lived from a 230,000 population in 1870

[@thomasemond2173]

70 P E R C E N TM A L E

[@alexandersokolov7722]

a question, Paraguay didn't had acess to sea, and in the videos there are some naval battles, how? rivers? who needs a navy just to patrol rivers? wouldn't it be much more easier just to barricade on the your side of the river and put some artillery there?

[@JabzyJoe]

A lot of nations use navies to patrol rivers , they're often called brown-water navies if you want to look them up. But in more recent times, think about the Vietnam War or America's Yangtze River Patrol in China.

[@gustavogoncalves3083]

Alexander, yes paraguay did have an navy and it was to patrol river Paraguay and Parana, look in your map to understand. Also they had a huge fortress in Humaitá. After the naval battle of Riachuelo (near the city of Corrientes, this battle was against Brazil and Paraguay), they pretty much lost their navy and their advantage in the war, as they were blocked from any help from the rest of the world.

[@GFBR1]

Besides the fact that there were almost no roads in that swampland, thus making rivers super important, the rivers are huge. You can navigate a squadron of ocean warships of the time through them.

[@williamdesmond1742]

I vote Chilean civil war of 1891, Great Pacific war, and the Acre war. These next few videos should be pretty South American.

[@strategicgamingwithaacorns2874]

Wasn't the male casualty rate in Paraguay so disproportionately high that the Catholic Church granted a Dispensation for Paraguayan men to marry more than one wife?

[@DeclinedMercy]

90% of men died, yes Paraguay normalized polygamy for a while to recover

[@DomPedro1822]

faça um vídeo sobre a independência do Brasil

[@ЛИНИЯШульца]

ei imperador

[@DomPedro1822]

willa skjonnhet ele não era transudo igual a mim, mas homossexual desconheço

[@forzaa867]

I speak Spanish and can understand your Portugese

[@DomPedro1822]

thanks for understanding my Portuguese am the emperor of Brazil

[@Honkler270]

get mlaid u destroyed the economy and brought inflation Pedro II is 700x times better

[@kevinreich2981]

Why isn’t this a movie ?!

[@dicitencellovoyais7914]

the war was destined to happen since the birth of Paraguay because they hated Brazilians since the time of the Bandeirantes (fortune hunters who broke the Treaty of Tordesillase expanded the Brazilian territory) who attacked them, they said that as punishment the god Tupã transformed these Bandeirantes in blacks people because of their actions, they started to hate Brazilians and it was only in 1864 when Solano Lopez had the largest army in South America, that they could empty that hate against Brazilians, the Paraguayan Aca Iboty were true suicidal psychopaths but the war is made of strategy and that Lopez did not understand, he simply sent men to the battlefields without strategy, when he played the strategist it was even worse as we see in the battle of Tuiuti where he lost 18,000 of his best men (with intellectual capital, etc) and Brazilians lost 3,000 volunteers farmers and slaves african.

[@cluster4583]

underrated comment really informative thanks

[@5Mariner]

I wish there was more information on this topic available

[@DomPedro1822]

viva o imperador Dom Pedro II meu amado Filho

[@DomPedro1822]

Adolfo Hiedler nem eu estou sabendo disso e desculpa eu tenho vários filhos perdão

[@kimjong-un9971]

+Adolfo Hiedler Fica assim não,um dia vc vai poder invadir a Rússia

[@DomPedro1822]

e vc a coreia do sul

[@EL_URUGUAYO_MV]

brasil es una mierda jajajajajajajaj

[@EL_URUGUAYO_MV]

Raposa do Deserto voce no sabe nada de historia..

[@alt1f4]

Really good video

[@capitaohectorbarbossa9172]

For all paraguayans and lefties on this comment section: Paraguay wanted to have an atlantic coast becouse all of it's exports needed to pass by the river plate, paraguay then tried to steal half of Brazil from Brazil. At this point the Empire of Brazil was in no condition to fight a war, the only thing Paraguay had to do was to make Brazil surender before it could mobilize it's forces and Paraguay atenpted to do that by trying some crazy blietzkrieg across a flooded swampland, giving enough time to Brazil prepare an land army that dwarfed that of paraguay, to repair the rusting colection of ironclads that was the Imperial Navy at the time, to start some sort of "Imperial Air Force" by buying some hot air baloons and to grab Argentina and Uruguay into an aliance. Later in the war, Humaitá was destroyed, Assuncion captured and Lopes was runing to the north with the brazilian army on his heel, the army being slowed down by the paraguayan dictator throwing it's people to defend himself. Later he would be mortally wounded by a brazilain spearman and tried to scape by fighting a brazilian officer, who killed lopez and ended the war. There is just no way 90% of the paraguayan male population would be killed during 6 years of war, we are not talking about nazi germany, Brazil wanted to make paraguay surender and to arest Lopez. And if that nunber is correct, paraguay would have never recovered, and there would be no Paraguay today. Or what? A bunch of elders and mentally ill people breeded Paraguay back into existance? The only reason the left has to spread this absurd it's the fact that it portray's the imperails as the baddies. Go learn some real history, kiddos.

[@DeclinedMercy]

90% of the men died but 'only' 50% of the women died and polygamy was legalized so the remaining men had many wives and as a result had more children, and even if that hadn't been true it just means the population would be far lower not that it wouldn't exist, and really it is not as though Paraguay is heavily populated today.

[@capitaohectorbarbossa9172]

​@@DeclinedMercy Are you fucking stupid? historians today calculated that the poppulation on that period was 350,000 top, and the death toll is between 8% and 18% , and two thirds of the death were not from battles but from desease, starvation, frostbite and poor logistics in the first place. Stop blaming Brazil and Argentina for defending themselves.

[@stephensmith7327]

I was introduced to this war through stories of Military Stupidity. I'm glad to have found a primer so people can have context for my story of how the Paraguayan Military tried to board a battle ships with Canoes, Civilian ships with no armor, AND NO BOARDING EQUIPMENT!!!

[@abnercarvalho9681]

Caxias matou foi pouco

[@FelipePetersBerchielli]

Na verdade ,matou mesmo, quando ele percebeu que o Lopez mandava meninos para o campo de batalha ele mesmo se retirou da campanha, alegando que foi ate la pra ganhar uma guerra, não para ser um coveiro, o Paraguai começou essa guerra estupida mas quando estava bem claro que a guerra estava ganha, o império brasileiro exagerou, tanto que como dito, Duque de Caxias se retirou do teatro de ações

[@marcelolima1500]

Caxias não matou, a matança começou quando Caxias saiu e o comando passou pras mãos do Conde D'eu

[@Soulbotagem-BR]

D. Pedro II, que sempre foi um homem equilibrado e de índole conciliadora, tomou um ódio tão profundo pelo Paraguai que no final da guerra ele não quis anexar o Paraguai, conforme foi proposto por Bartolomeu Mitre (Argentina) numa divisão entre os dois países. Ele disse que o paraguaio não era digno de ser chamado de brasileiro...

[@urielramirez4669]

Just a quick question, which armed conflict was the deadliest in the americas as a whole? I'm between the Paraguayan war and the American Civil War

[@joaopadua7134]

I believe the civil war, but it comes tho to tho

[@gustavodemira7416]

Paraguay had little as 15% of their entire population as males of age. The majority of the Paraguayan population were women, children and elderly.

[@leogeekfods1]

Gotislav Vasiljkovic yep, paraguay never recovered from the war.

[@gustavodemira7416]

leogeekfods1 Really a shame.. They were the most advanced nation in Latin America.. Now they are poor, suffer from rebels, contraband and intense drug trafficking.

[@TheChelus]

Gotislav Vasiljkovic and most of the congress are drugs dealer

[@gustavodemira7416]

***** Yes, after that only disgrace hit them... Unfortunate.

[@gustavodemira7416]

***** At the time, yes. In all Latin America.

[@pparisps5141]

Great video!

[@Andre_LuizFF]

MEXE COM O BRASIL NÃO,SE NÃO JA SABE NÉ!

[@fernando12345678966]

your videos are simply amazing. Great job. But could you start making more videos about this region (latin America) like independence of Argentina as they influenced and helped many other south American nations to obtain their independence.

[@vlogdemon]

Paraguay is the Germany of South America

[@darkmoon1289]

And Brazil is the Soviet Union

[@Sheiki11037]

Uruguay is Switzerland Bolivia is Poland

[@abliatio]

Silly comment

[@abliatio]

Sorry, I tried to answer to Jayden Clarke's comment.

[@Soulbotagem-BR]

Paraguay is Hungary...

[@justmyopinion2333]

Over half the people died in Paraguay, wow that’s terrible

[@nagasakiwentboom4193]

Anyone from Uruguay here lol

[@jpass7784]

#Jabzy why you dont a vídeo about The Ogaden War???

[@letherbel5605]

ADEUS 90%DOS PARAGUAIOS ADEUS LOPEZ PEDRIN ARRASOU CONTIGO

[@gozolino]

Deodoro da Fonseca deu um pé na bunda da família imperial kkkkkkkk

[@feiquizaobr9526]

@@gozolino fuck Brazil, Brazil shit

[@letherbel5605]

@@feiquizaobr9526 dando uma de gringo ae mano?

[@letherbel5605]

@@gozolino Deodoro e mó vacilão

[@feiquizaobr9526]

@@letherbel5605 What is gringo?

[@jomadecano]

3:02 There are no mountains in paraguay

[@gabrielromano6477]

"Damn war. This war will be the ruin of the winner and the complete destruction of the loser." (Barão de Mauá) And so it was, because Brazil and Argentina contracted large foreign debts to maintain their war machines. This war was largely responsible for the fall of Dom Pedro II and the overthrow of the monarchy in Brazil, with the complicated economic situation, the army feeling despised by the emperor was co-opted by the positivist and republican ideas. "The Paraguayan War was a big deal for the Jewish Rotschild and his fellow Christian Barings, whose loans found a nation or overthrow a throne" (Lord Byron) Brazil borrowed GBP 10 million from Rotschild bank and GBP 4 million from Barings bank. In addition, the war lasted 5 long years and Brazil managed to destroy Paraguay. The Paraguayan population was wiped out in the war. Solano López put women, children and even the elderly to fight in the war, because the men of legal age were destroyed in the war.

[@georgierayburton9639]

What about the Seminole wars or Bolivars revolution in South America

[@macacoumadelizia1737]

In reality, winners tell the story, Argentina and Brazil were 2 power countries of the region, specially Brazil which was an empire at the time, and Paraguay’s only allie was Uruguay, when they overthrew the government, Paraguay was completely surrounded and landlocked by regional powers who disliked their existence, so declared war on Brazil, because eventually if they didn’t do anything, Brazil was going to do the same to them or even directly annex it, then Argentina did not let Paraguayans through their territory, that’s true, the part they dont count is that they did let the Brazilians go through their territory to attack Uruguay and Paraguay, so that was everything but neutral, after that happened everything that we know, either way I think is still Lopez’s fault to just not surrender when they were inevitably going to lose and let into battle until 90% of male population was exterminated, Paraguay was going to be annexed by Brazil and Argentina but President Rutherford B. Hayes intervened to keep Paraguay’s independence as a buffer state between Brazil and Argentina over the Chaco which they had border disputes

[@joaopadua7134]

Fun fact: the literal translation of "mato grosso" goes something along the lines of thick grass

[@dompedroii9303]

Ave Império

[@neerajkrishnan2593]

I didn't understand why leaders fought disasterous wars at the expense of the ordinary men in Paraguay itself 60 percentage of ordinary citizens were killed for nothing 😢

[@Denes300]

When Brazil got the job DONE! Ave Imperio!

[@Amanda-dp5ii]

Cobarde inútil. Porque no le declaras la guerra a China, que es de tu tamaño? Con Paraguay y de a 3 eres macho?

[@nicolas0402]

@@Amanda-dp5ii o Paraguai que invadiu sua idiota kkkkk

[@RiceaFashionBossXPD]

@@Amanda-dp5ii Ninguém mandou seu ditador nojento declarar guerra ao Império do Brasil. Em momento NENHUM Brasil declarou guerra ao Merdaguay, a única coisa que o Brasil fez foi se defender. E ainda, se não fosse por nós, vocês seriam Argentinos agora.

[@Soulbotagem-BR]

@@Amanda-dp5ii China é do tamanho da Índia, não do Brasil, idiota... E passarinho que come pedra sabe o culo que tem. Não se metam com quem é maior que vc!!...

[@neldatoroc4269]

The Legend of Genji of Empire of Brazil?

[@ChemistryAtomistic]

Paraguai perdeu a guerra, mas o Brasil definitivamente não ganhou. Por que? Saímos da guerra com uma dívida externa que ultrapassava o PIB do Brasil não sei quantas vezes, perdemos a constância política e logo vieram os primeiros golpes de Estado, o país ficou _mais pobre_. O Uruguai conseguiu ficar estável politicamente e a Argentina se tornou um dos países mais ricos do mundo, com PIB per capita semelhante ao Canadá e Austrália. Como assim os paraguaios ainda culpam o Brasil? Vocês tentaram anexar o estado do Mato Grosso, pilharam, saquearam e estupraram! Queriam misericórdia nossa?

[@oswaldovb67]

+Chemistry Atomistic divida essa que foi quitada em dez anos

[@raulalmeida4448]

+Chemistry Atomistic Isso é o que os livros do Mec pintam, sim é verdade e que o custo da guerra ultrapassou 11 vezes o orçamento, mas foi quitada em dez anos e aos poucos para não ter impacto, isso que a guerra afundou a economia é mentira afinal a decada de 1870 marcou o inicio da industrialização no país, (2ª Revolução Industrial), o país continuou crescendo até 1889.

[@ChemistryAtomistic]

Raul Almeida ''Livros do Mec'' não me compare com você. Eu estudei o tema bastante. Grande porcaria, já na década de 80 daquele século, o país estava instável politicamente e o povo não tinha experimentado o sucesso financeiro que o argentino experimentou. A guerra foi danosa ao Império do Brasil, estado que não existe mais por sinal.

[@sidwinter295]

+Chemistry Atomisticwho um livro atual e muito bem pesquisado sobre o tema é o Maldita Guera do Francisco Doratioto, esse livro é fruto de 10 de pesquisa e colaboração de pesquisadores argentinos, brasileiros e paraguaios, o autor explora diversos mitos que a historiografia tradicional perpetuava sobre o conflito, o mito de que nossa divida externa começou na guerra do paraguaí é um deles, a monarquia se recuperou economicamente do conflito, um fator decorrente do conflito que realmente contribuiu para a queda da monarquia foi o fortalecimento do exército que passou a ter mais expressão na política nacional (e se tornou um bastião de ideais republicanos) mas mesmo assim, estabelecer essa relação causal entre guerra do paraguaí e o fim do império ignora diversos outros fatores mais próximos de sua queda(que aliás se deu quase 20 anos depois) como a questão religiosa e o conflito com a elite agrária decorrente da abolição que resultaram em um isolamento político do imperador.

[@ChemistryAtomistic]

vitor granha Diga o que quiser. Para mim, a Guerra do Paraguay foi um fiasco econômico e eu, particularmente, não sinto grandes saudades da Monarquia.

[@joltsorrin]

Boer war should be next, you left a cliffhanger on one of your previous videos.

[@HeyImRod]

As someone who heard BOTH sides of the story, I have to say that this video ignores a lot of facts, such as the obvious British intervention in the war. If you don't know much about that then you should read books about this war written by both Argentinians and Paraguayans. They also ignore the imperialists ideas of Brazil. The war was going to happen REGARDLESS of Lopez's decision of helping his Uruguayan friends.

[@alexandersokolov7722]

Sorry but I have to ask, Why would the U.K. intervene in Paraguay? this is a resume of South American economy during 19th century : Brazilian exports of Coffee, and nothing else, Paraguay was isolated, their economy almost didn't exist, they needed rivers that could be blocked by Brazil or Argentina, they didn't had a big population, they didn't had any industry, their country was small in territorial size, the only thing they had, was a small obsolete railway, nothing else, in the eyes of Britain they were nothing, why intervene in such a useless matter?

[@TheHoopThrower]

For a 4 minute video, I'd say this was faily concise, of course it glossed over a lot of details because, duh, 3 minutes history.

[@dicitencellovoyais7914]

Paraguay was not an emerging industrial power, Uruguay was an former-province of the Empire of Brazil, this is than Brazil intervened in Uruguay. England and Belgium provided weapons to the 2 sides! only they profit from the war. Even Britain bombed the Slaveship Brazil the severance of diplomatic relations before the war. He became known as' 'question Christie'.

[@pastrocks85]

+Aleksandr Solosvkr It's well known now of the British involvement, it wasn't directly, but it was through support, and pressure. At this time Paraguay was on of the only country in Latin America that was isolated, that forced it to be self sufficient. This went unnoticed by the British due to the fact that they were focused on regaining control over the newly freed Latin America states, the ones which were already in their radar. That control would be through forcing Latin America to send its raw resources to them, and selling back to them the finished products, shoes, ponchos, hats, wood for homes... So Argentina, and Brazil instead of using their own resources to creat the very things they were importing from Europe, exported their countries future and development. While that was going on, Paraguay was growling, and prospering. It wouldn't be long before the rest of the world would take notice of this. Not wanting to let other countries follow in place, Europe heavily influenced war

[@pastrocks85]

Sorry about my spelling errors, I'm on my phone and it's late lol

[@principalityoftheseals3417]

How can isolation make you so strong

[@eduardoblasquesmartine959]

Viva o Império do Brazil!

[@kousvetkousvet4158]

A R E Y O U S E R I O U S ?

[@oimeuchapa6995]

@@kousvetkousvet4158 our republic are the worst in the planet so...

[@feiquizaobr9526]

No friend. If you write "Long live the Empire of Brazil"

[@mrnerdbrown879]

Could you do the Uruguayan war plz

[@Mateo-oq7ui]

Just an FYI, most of the genociding was made by Brazil.

[@yudibirelo3551]

Sim Foi um Genocidio feito pelo Brasil mas o Paraguai atacou primeiro

[@Mateo-oq7ui]

Yudi Lopes da Silva Cierto, en realidad no fue un genocidio, porque los dos países estaban en guerra ya.

[@ceniralinhares6262]

+Mateo Pedro Gonzale de Azcuenaga Ainda bem, isso limpa o nome do maravilhoso Brasil!

[@arthurlibritannia1865]

Amigo,não havia um censo comum da população do Paraguai,então o genocido é duvidoso!

[@vroomkaboom108]

Oh, so an idiotic dictator effectively banked a check his nation couldnt pay by declaring war to the three major surrounding powers and conscripting all his men into the army and you say BRAZILIANS did a genocide? Honestly, get your facts right

[@NT-fj7dm]

Bro really thought he's Hitler

[@stanldeybrown9387]

So many lies here, Paraguay was one of the most powerful countries in the region on that time, we had no debts with other countries and we had many industries that were destroyed by the Brazilians as the iron foundry. And even children when to war in a battle where they were decapitated crying for their lives. This war was obviously the product of the bad decisions of the president of Paraguay but it was in part the envy of the other countries in the region. They even singed an agreement to destroy Paraguay and make them pay for all the war cost.

[@JabzyJoe]

+stanldey brown I said they were self-sufficient and had the largest army. So I never said they were weak.

[@kaluk8291]

If that was so, how come Paraguay was the one that started the war?

[@FelipePetersBerchielli]

Powerful countries of what?Which industry? Those are petty lies please, one fact that the you didnt mention on the video is that Solano thought that would be a war between Brazil and England, they had recently cut relations, search about the Christie question, so he made a bet, a bet that didnt pay off, a few years later Brazil and England reconciled and the rest of the story you already know, also, i will point that fact that the number of deaths is up to debate, even large scale wars such as WWII or the napoleonic wars didnt kill that percentage of population, i highly doubt that 60% of the population of Paraguay died due to the war.

[@rafaelcanovas3921]

It did, the next census after the war register around 28k males of a population of 280k. The war kill 90% of the male pop as a fact.

[@arthurmorgan3180]

That still doesn’t mean they didn’t do the same thing to Brazil

[@redwards5000]

Did anyone else spend the whole video wondering how Paraguay has a navy?

[@CatotheE]

Rivers.

[@enzorodrigues8071]

BRAZIL ABOVE EVERYTHING, GOD ABOVE EVERYONE!!!

[@TFrills]

Wow.... what a happy ending.

[@GazilionPT]

Yes, 60% death toll: from over 500,000 to just over 200,000 inhabitants; and of those, only less than 30,000 were adult males.

[@mrteteubr01]

Brazil did a good thing,Paragay sucks!!!!

[@kimjong-un9971]

Hahaha concordo

[@talia8881]

matheus nabih you suck! Paraguayan people are the best!

[@emmelinesalvatore5339]

Hey don't be like that we must help each other Paraguay and Brasil should be friends despite all the bad things that have happened in the past

[@mrteteubr01]

I agree, in honor of our friendly relationship, Brazil has built the bridge of friendship that leaves all bad things in the past

[@mrteteubr01]

But in that time,Paraguay atacks brazil,and we Should not stay still

[@antonio22222285]

0:32 nope. In Argentina the confederation won the civil war. That's why now is called Federal Republic of Argentina. In the war of triple alliance, Argentina had elected a unitarian president. I think that's why you're confused.

[@leannepoole7511]

Some battles of 1812 didn't have *ANY* casualties. One of the battles the USA didn't even show up.ANY

[@bernardocosta7935]

Ok, with just three minutes it is difficult to tell all details about it, but the video lacks one basic explanation: the importance of controlling the río de la plata mouth, not only for the countries involved directly in war, but also for european players such as France and GB which also had interests in the region and played a role by supporting one side.

[@sebas98192]

very accurate congrats

[@davcantor35]

How about the wars of independence led by Simon Bolivar, which led to the creation of the short lived Gran Colombia?

[@Varaga_82]

do the War of the Pacific between chile peru and bolivia

[@tonykelly1363]

Varaga Ashede no one cares about chile. And that war was irrelevant. This channel only shows the BIG ones, and the triple alliance was the bigger of south america

[@thenightshift4893]

M-m-m-m-monsterkill!

[@TheGreatResist]

Background music is CREEPY asf. Cool channel, tho.

[@geraldshort16]

Do the Ireland Easter Rebellion of 1916 please.

[@JabzyJoe]

Jonathan Cruz I covered that briefly in the Irish War of Independence video.

[@geraldshort16]

Jabzy Okay thanks.

[@Honkler270]

Jabzy u dint say wo got more with the war (was england)

[@cortezthebeast]

Now do the War of the Confederation!

[@NxMaGiiCz]

I see some comments about the UK having to do something with this war, can someone explain, I want to learn more about the conflict and its wider effect such as independence for many South American countries around the time. Also, this war sounds quite one sided (3) against one, not that's good or bad but rather interesting. Lastly, does Paraguay have a stable population now and do you campaign for there lost land back?

[@adrianawood7482]

UK had nothing to do with it. It's a debunked theory with no thesis or proofs. The independence of the South American countries happened before this war. From 1808 - 1829, the hispanic colonies got their independence from Spain, creating different countries. Brazil got its independence from Portugal in 1822. The war was not one-sided, Sólano López (Paraguay's president) wanted access to the Platina Bay and territorial expanse. To do so, he had to invade Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. He also used an excuse of Brazilian Imperialism in Uruguay (true, but not a reason to create war) in order to try and gain support from the other South American countries. None supported him, but even it being completely insane, he tried to battle two countries. One being Brazil, which was the big imperialist country of the region, with a huge army. Argentina and Uruguay didn't really play a big part in the war battles, Brazil did that mostly. The lost land is lost. Paraguayans population is better now, but still has a difference in numbers between women and men.

[@NxMaGiiCz]

+adriana wood thanks for the info, it's a rather interesting piece of history.

[@alexandersokolov7722]

thanks, it's nice to know that, and as i've studied, Paraguay did had a agreement with Brazil a few years earlier, and before the invasion, Solano did send a letter to the Brazilian Emperor Peter II, asking him to remember that agreement, but was ignored, and he did invade Brazil to strengthen his position to sue for peace maybe? any way thanks for the info.

[@dicitencellovoyais7914]

Solano Lopez was considered an enemy of Patria in Paraguay until 1930 when it exploded nationalist sentiment around the world! And later in the years 60-70-80 height of the Cold War, historians Marxist Brazilian-Argentine invented '' British imperialism '' in the war! The fact that England and Belgium provided weapons to the 2 sides! Argentina wanted to share with Brazil the Paraguay and attach a piece of Territorio, Dom Pedro II said No! In 1937 Getulio Vargas forgave Divide Paraguayan!

[@pastrocks85]

Yeah it was debunked if you read all the wrong books. The British was involved by influencing Brazil, and Argentina. It wasn't in direct involvement, the Brits new that wouldn't fly being as the Latin American states just gained their independence, so they had to use their means. They used its political influence to deter any other countries from establishing self sufficiently, like the state of Paraguay. The new way, as it is very common now, of controlling countries was through the world economy, not through colonialism, which Brits were the head of then, now it's the US. So in order to make sure that complete control was to be had, they had to make sure Paraguay fell in line and joined the rest of the word and participate in the world economy aka: take British loans, export them you naturally resources, and import British made things. It was pretty much the start of what would be the "free market" basically control through economic policy.

[@DaisyGeekyTransGirl]

I apologise to Stroessner. He was clearly more concerned with human life by comparison.

[@el_chico1313]

paraguay sought to forme alliances which would the keep the federalists spirit alive which was against the centrification of powers within the cities what the unitarians and porteños wanted. thats why the blanco regime in uruguay sought help from paraguay because lopez was the bastion of the federalists. the unitarians disliked this powerhouse and when the opportunity of war presentef itself they gladly took it to get rid of their ideological counterpart in the heart of south america