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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 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.

For a while, the Unión was subjected to cross fire, then the Pilcomayo suffered boiler trouble, and dropped out of the battle. After a two-hour running artillery duel, Unión suffered engine problems, the pursuit was called off. Magallanes escaped with minor damage and had completed part of its mission, delivering commissioned papers to Iquique, but could not complete its reconnaissance mission of finding if any guano ships were still trading in the zone.

There were no injuries on either side.

References

^ Sater, William F. (2007-01-01). Andean Tragedy: Fighting the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884. U of Nebraska Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-8032-0759-2.

War of the Pacific

Participants

Allied	Peru Bolivia
Chile	Chile

Timeline

preliminary	Atacama border dispute Boundary Treaty of 1866 between Chile and Bolivia Treaty of Defensive Alliance (Bolivia–Peru) Peruvian Saltpeter Monopoly Boundary Treaty of 1874 between Chile and Bolivia
1879	Refugees Expulsion of Chileans from Bolivia and Peru in 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 Chilean occupation of Peru 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	Torpedo boats in the War of the Pacific Toro Submarino Strategies of the War of the Pacific
Aftermath	Chilean–Peruvian maritime dispute Puna de Atacama dispute Consequences of the War of the Pacific Charaña agreement

Personnel

Peru	Miguel Grau Seminario Francisco Bolognesi Andrés Avelino Cáceres Mariano Ignacio Prado Alfonso Ugarte Mariano Bustamante Nicolás de Piérola Lizardo Montero Flores Melitón Carvajal Juan Buendía Juan Fanning Juan Guillermo More Miguel Iglesias Francisco García Calderón Leoncio Prado Gutiérrez Luis Germán Astete Emilio Cavenecia
Bolivia	Eduardo Abaroa Ladislao Cabrera Narciso Campero Hilarión Daza Mariano Baptista Pedro José Domingo de Guerra Ismael Montes
Chile	Irene Morales Juan de Dios Aldea José Luis Araneda Carrasco Luis Gómez Carreño Juan Bravo Manuel Baquedano Orozimbo Barbosa Marcos Segundo Maturana 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 Enrique Simpson Policarpo Toro Óscar Viel y Toro Cornelio Saavedra Rodríguez Roberto Silva Renard Robert Souper Howard Hernán Trizano Luis Uribe Gregorio Urrutia José Velásquez Bórquez Juan Williams Rebolledo Galvarino Riveros Cárdenas Jorge Montt Álvarez Domingo Santa María Aníbal Pinto Alberto Blest Gana Ramón Allende Padín Juana López Diego Dublé Almeyda Sofanor Parra
Others	Abel-Nicolas du Petit-Thouars Roque Sáenz Peña Otto von Moltke

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