Battle of La Concepción

Battle of Concepción
	Part of the War of the Pacific
	; Concepción is a little town at the Mantaro River. Roads and railroads at that time are drawn.
Date	9-10 July 1882
Location	Concepción, Perú
Result	Peruvian victory
Belligerents
Chile	Peru
Commanders and leaders
Ignacio Carrera †	Juan Gastó
Strength
77 soldiers	1,000 soldiers
Casualties and losses
77 killed	40 killed or wounded; (Peruvian accounts); 250 guerrillas killed; (Chilean accounts)
	Location within Peru Battle of La Concepción (South America) Battle of La Concepción (America)

The Battle of Concepción (Spanish: Batalla de Concepción) was fought between Chilean and Peruvian forces on July 9 and July 10, 1882, during the Sierra Campaign of the War of the Pacific. Heavily outnumbered, the Chilean detachment of 77 men under the command of Captain Ignacio Carrera Pinto was annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears, commanded by Col. Juan Gasto and Ambrosio Salazar after a 27-hour fight in the small town of Concepción in the Peruvian Andes.

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