The Paraguayans took advantage of their ability to communicate over the radio in Guaraní, a language not intelligible to the average Bolivian soldier.
After unsuccessful attempts to break through Paraguayan lines and having suffered 2,600 dead, 7,500 Bolivian soldiers surrendered.
By the end of the war 15,000 Bolivian soldiers had deserted to Argentina.
On Day 141, the guerrillas capture Bolivian soldiers that refuse to join the revolution and are free to return to their villages.
The Bolivian soldiers were able to get 916 cartridges, a sack of bread and 110 pounds of dried meat from the air drops.
They are generally thought to have been killed by Bolivian soldiers in 1909.
Bolivia failed to recover the territory in a counterattack, though Bolivian soldiers fought "like lions," as one school text explains.
As dozens of Bolivian soldiers surround the area, Butch suggests the duo's next destination should be Australia.
Up to 2,000 Bolivian soldiers were killed and 7,000 made prisoner.
Bolivian soldiers had surrounded my local gas station, where a banner read, "Property of the Bolivian State."