COMBATE DE LA CONCEPCION

BATTLE OF CONCEPCION

The Battle of Concepción was fought on 9th and 10th July 1882, during the Sierra Campaign of the War of the Pacific (1879-1883). Heavily outnumbered, the Chilean Regiment Nº 6 Chacabuco’s 6th Company of 77 men under the command of Captain Ignacio Carrera Pinto was annihilated by a 1.300 Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears, commanded by Col. Gastó and Ambrosio Salazar after 27 hour fight in the small town of Concepcion in the Peruvian Andes.