title: Battle of Apa River
text: # Battle of Apa River
  
  vteParaguayan War :
  
  Mato Grosso campaign
  
  Marquês de Olinda
  
  1st Corumbá
  
  Fort Novo de Coimbra
  
  Feio River
  
  Dourados
  
  Nioaque
  
  Anhambaí
  
  Fort Miranda
  
  Coxim
  
  Laguna
  
  Apa River
  
  2nd Corumbá
  
  Alegre
  
  Corrientes campaign
  
  Corrientes
  
  San Lorenzo River
  
  Rio Grande do Sul
  
  São Borja
  
  Butuí
  
  Uruguaiana
  
  Riachuelo
  
  Salto
  
  Paso de Mercedes
  
  Paso de Cuevas
  
  Yatay
  
  Pehuajó
  
  Jaguarí
  
  Humaitá campaign
  
  Purutué Bank
  
  Paso de Patria
  
  Laguna Sirena
  
  Itapirú
  
  Estero Bellaco
  
  Paso Cidra
  
  1st Tuyutí
  
  Yataytí Corá
  
  Boquerón
  
  Sauce
  
  Palmar
  
  Curuzú
  
  Curupayty
  
  Arroyo Hondo
  
  Hacienda Laguna
  
  Tuyú Cué
  
  1st Passage of Curupayty
  
  Pilar
  
  Ombú
  
  Estero Rojas
  
  Perecué
  
  Tatayibá
  
  Potrero Obella
  
  Humaitá
  
  Passage
  
  2nd Tuyutí
  
  Paso Ipohy
  
  2nd Passage of Curupayty
  
  Laguna Cierva
  
  Cabral and Lima Barros
  
  1st Iasuií
  
  2nd Iasuií
  
  Poí Island
  
  Barroso and Rio Grande
  
  Acayuazá
  
  Fortín Island
  
  Pikysyry campaign
  
  Yacaré
  
  Paso de Tebicuarí
  
  Surubí
  
  Pikysyry
  
  Dezembrada
  
  Ytororó
  
  Avay
  
  Lomas Valentinas
  
  Angostura
  
  San Fernando
  
  Asunción
  
  Cordilleras campaign
  
  Manduvirá River
  
  Concepción
  
  Ybytimí
  
  Tupí-hú
  
  Sapukái
  
  Diarte
  
  Piribebuy
  
  Acosta Ñu
  
  Piribebuy River
  
  Hondo River
  
  Itapytangua
  
  Tacuaty
  
  Curuguaty
  
  Hucuratí
  
  Loma Rugua
  
  Caguijuru–Caraguataí
  
  Iguatemi
  
  Río Verde
  
  Cambaceguá
  
  Lomaruguá
  
  Cerro Corá
  
  Miranda :
  
  The Combat of the Apa River was a military confrontation on May 12 1867 between Brazilian and Paraguayan forces on a farm near the José Carlos stream, on the right bank of the Apa River, in the province of Mato Grosso do Sul, on the border between the belligerents.
  
  During the Paraguayan occupation of the province, the invaders had dominated a farm in the region, later renamed Fazenda Marechal López, where the ultimate combat took place. There, Paraguayans began to develop gardens and raise cattle. The Brazilian forces of the 17th Battalion of Volunteers of the Fatherland, who would later be part of the campaign called Withdrawal from the Lagoon, approached the farm and started the confrontation, on May 12, 1867. The Paraguayans tried to disable the farm, setting the fields on fire, harassing the cattle, then fleeing.
  
  