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:
Abbreviations used
Military rank MG = Major general BG = Brigadier general Col = Colonel Ltc = Lieutenant colonel Maj = Major Cpt = Captain Lt = 1st lieutenant
Chilean North Operations Army General Staff Col Emilio Sotomayor Baeza Col Arístides Martínez
Division Regiments, batteries and other units Division of the Right:
Col Martiniano Urriola : Ltc Luis José Ortiz 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 Division of the Center
Col Domingo Amunátegui 4th Line Infantry Regiment: Ltc Domingo Amunátegui : 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 Cazadores de Caballo Regiment: Ltc Pedro Soto Aguilar Groups of Pontooners and others: Maj Juan Larraín 2nd Artillery Brigade: Col Benjamín Montoya 1st/2nd Battery: Cpt Santiago Frías 1st/2nd Battery: Cpt Domingo Carvallo
Southern Peruvian Army General Staff MG Juan Buendía Col Belisario Suárez
Group Division Regiments and othersWestern 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 BattalionEastern Group
MG Juan Buendía 4th Division
Col Justo Pastor Dávila 6th Puno Line Battalion: Col Rafael Ramírez 8th Lima Line Battalion: Col Remigio Morales Bermúdez 5th Division
BG Pedro Bustamante 3rd Lima Provisional Line Battalion 1st Ayacucho Battalion: Col Leoncio Prado Gutiérrez 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 BattalionReserves
Col Andrés Avelino Cáceres 2nd Division
Col Andrés Avelino Cáceres 2nd Zepita Line Battalion Dos de Mayo Battalion
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