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The Battle of San Francisco was an engagement during the War of the Pacific (1879–1883) between Chile and the Allied Forces of Peru and Bolivia . It was fought on November 19, 1880, with the forces aligned as follows:
MG = Major general
BG = Brigadier general
Col = Colonel
Ltc = Lieutenant colonel
Maj = Major
Cpt = Captain
Lt = 1st lieutenant
Chilean North Operations Army [ edit ]
General Staff
Division
Regiments, batteries and other units
Division of the Right:
Col Martiniano Urriola
1st Infantry Regiment "Buin" [es ] : Ltc Luis José Ortiz[ 1]
Civic Naval Artillery Battalion: Col Martiniano Urriola
Valparaíso Municipal Police Battalion: Ltc Jacinto Niño
1st Artillery Brigade
1st/2nd Battery: Col Eulogio Villarroel
1st/2nd Battery: Col Roberto Wood[ 1]
Division of the Center
Col Domingo Amunátegui
4th Line Infantry Regiment: Ltc Domingo Amunátegui
21st Infantry Regiment "Coquimbo" [es ] : Ltc Alejandro Gorostiaga
Atacama Battalion: Ltc Juan Martínez
Cazadores de Caballo Regiment: Ltc Pedro Soto Aguilar
Horse Grenadier Company
3rd Artillery Brigade: José Salvo
1st/3rd Battery: Cpt Pablo Urízar
Division of the Left
Ltc Ricardo Castro
2nd Line Infantry Regiment: Ltc José Velásquez Bórquez
3rd Line Infantry Regiment: Ltc Ricardo Castro[ 1]
Cazadores de Caballo Regiment: Ltc Pedro Soto Aguilar
Groups of Pontooners and others: Maj Juan Larraín
2nd Artillery Brigade: Col Benjamín Montoya[ 1]
1st/2nd Battery: Cpt Santiago Frías
1st/2nd Battery: Cpt Domingo Carvallo
Southern Peruvian Army [ edit ]
General Staff
Group
Division
Regiments and others
Western Group
Col Belisario Suárez
1st Division
Col Manuel Velarde Seoane
5th Cazadores de Cuzco Battalion
7th Cazadores de la Guardia Battalion
2nd Division
BG Pedro Villamil
2nd Aroma de Cochabamba Battalion
3rd Vengadores de Potosí Battalion
Victoria Battalion
Colquechaca Battalion
Husares de Junin Squadron
3rd Division
Col Francisco Bolognesi
2nd Ayacucho Battalion
Guardia de Arequipa Battalion
Eastern Group
MG Juan Buendía
4th Division
Col Justo Pastor Dávila
5th Division
BG Pedro Bustamante
1st Division
BG Carlos Villegas
2nd Cazadores de la Guardia Battalion
3rd Paucarpata de La Paz Battalion
1st Dalence de Oruro Battalion: Col Donato Vásquez
Other Regiments
Guias Cavalry Squadron
Castilla Cavalry Squadron
Campaña Artillery Battalion: Ltc Emilio Castañón
1st Húsares de Bolívar Battalion
Reserves
Col Andrés Avelino Cáceres
2nd Division
Col Andrés Avelino Cáceres
2nd Zepita Line Battalion
Dos de Mayo Battalion
^ a b c d Reyno Gutiérrez, Manuel; Gómez Ehrmann, Sergio; Guerrero Yoacham, Cristián (1985). Historia del Ejército de Chile, tomo V . Estado Mayor General del Ejército de Chile.
Participants
Timeline
preliminary 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 Ending
Aspects
Personnel