Battle of Tacuarí

Battle of Tacuarí
Part of Paraguay campaign
DateMarch 9, 1811
Location
By the Tacuarí river, in Southern Paraguay, north of the town of Encarnación.
Result Royalist victory
Belligerents
United Provinces of the Río de la Plata Royalist Army of Paraguay
Commanders and leaders
Manuel Belgrano Manuel Cabañas
Strength
550 infantry and 400 cavalry: 11  2,500–2,700 local soldiers from Paraguay

The Battle of Tacuarí (9 March 1811) was a battle in Southern Paraguay between revolutionary forces under the command of General Manuel Belgrano, member of the Primera Junta government of Argentina, and Paraguayan troops under colonel Manuel Atanasio Cabañas, at the time at the service of the royalists.

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