✦ History

Part of Paraguayan War

Battle of Avay

December 11, 1868

Result Brazilian victory

Brazilian troops under the Duke of Caxias defeated a Paraguayan army at the Avay stream during the December campaign of the Paraguayan War.

Contemporaries

Triple Alliance

Paraguay

Empire of Brazil
Paraguay
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias military commander
Bernardino Caballero military commander

Strength and losses

Casualties
1,663
Killed
297
Wounded
1,366
Casualties
3,600
Killed
3,000
Wounded
600