<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Pacific" id="mwlA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="War of the Pacific">War of the Pacific</a>: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_La_Concepción" id="mwlQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of La Concepción">Battle of La Concepción</a> when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.