Word: pilcomayo
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...Gran Chaco (Great Chaco), bestriding the Pilcomayo River before it meets the Paraguay River, is in Argentina as well as Bolivia and Paraguay. El Chaco Boreal (Northern Chaco) is wholly north of the Pilcomayo River, has concerned only Bolivia and Paraguay...
...Gran Chaco is rated a "green hell" by romantic Author-Explorer Julian Duguid. Actually it is a great variegated basin extending from northern Argentina to eastern Bolivia. The disputed section is a liver-shaped area bounded by the Paraguay and Pilcomayo Rivers. At the Paraguayan edge it is grassy and open, the soil sandy and dry. Farther west the jungle swamps and lagoons begin, follow the sluggish, unnavigable Pilcomayo to the south, dot the drowned lands to the north. Still farther west, verging into Bolivia's Andean foothills, the land changes again to open woodland, broken by fertile plains...
Attempting to outflank Fort Ballivian, Paraguay's shrewd General Jose Felix Estigarribia sent three full divisions inland from the Pilcomayo River. At Canada Strongest the Bolivians struck. All the world has helped supply both armies with munitions, but there was a particularly Franco-Prussian cast to the battle of Canada Strongest. Youthful General Estigarribia, Paraguayan Commander-in-Chief, is French-trained, a graduate of the French cavalry school at Saumur and the great military academy of St.-Cyr. Bolivia's General Enrique Penaranda del Castillo is German-trained and served under Bolivia's dismissed Prussian commander. General...
...mile front centering on strategic Fort Ballivian, Bolivian headquarters on the Pilcomayo River, every man, every gun and cartridge that either side could mobilize was gathered for one deciding battle. Some 50,000 bloodthirsty Paraguayans were attacking about 60,000 dogged Bolivians. Should Paraguay break through, she will win not only the Fort, but the best motor road in all South America, leading straight into Bolivia's rich Villa Monies oilfields. Paraguayan cavalry columns moved northeast in an effort to outflank the Fort and all night long the sky was yellow with shellfire, while swaying ambulances going back passed...
...vicious little Gran Chaco war between Bolivia & Paraguay last week reached its Gettysburg. Under French-trained General Estigarribia the Paraguayans, born short-end fighters, had harried the Bolivians northwestward across the jungle to the Pilcomayo River, backed them up against their last Chaco stronghold, Fort Ballivian. The Paraguayans planned to take Ballivian and stop. They found the Bolivians entrenched in open hayfields, for the first time in the war. General Estigarribia's artillery bombarded the trenches for two days. On the second the first wave of Paraguayans stumbled out into the hayfields in a close formation bayonet charge...