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PARISIS, PIERRE L. 



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of the day 8,000 ball.-* fell in and near the de- 

 !.| no guns of calibre 

 r. Tents and bagga- 



escaped. '1'lic casual- 

 ettitnated at 100 among the ;. 

 .:nl iMh of August, . 



of the allied arrnius took 

 ulvod to attack simul- 

 whole of the allied forces. On 

 -learned up the river, 

 : 1'orto A legrc's forces, cons i.-ti ng 

 .en, the leading vessel being the iron- 

 in >. Soon after the fleet began 

 . heavy tiro from a masked battery 

 .ii mi-.' ami a half miles below Curupaity, 

 was suddenly opened on the foremost vessels. 

 On the id, the tire from the battery was renew- 

 1 was quickly answered by all the vessels 

 >t the battery. 1>. twveti 3 and 4 P. M., 

 having slackened its fire, the troops 

 landed, under the lire of the gunboats, and, 

 amidst the most enthusiastic vita*, with fixed 

 els, stormed the battery, driving out the 

 iay aiis and taking it in a few minutes. 

 Paraguayans, however, carried off three 

 nf their guns with them. The number of guns 

 :o have been captured is nine. This affair 

 ;>osed to have cost the Baron Porto Alegre, 

 men placed hon de combat a dear pur- 

 Ibr apparently so small an advantage. 

 Among the casualties on the Brazilian side in 

 this equivocal victory was the blowing up of 

 n-clad Rio do Janeiro by a torpedo. Nino 

 - of cannon, arms, munitions, etc., and 

 three Hags, remained with the victors, whose 

 losses in this short affair of one and a half hour, 

 were nearly 200 killed and 800 wounded ; that 

 or the Paraguayans, who had about 3,000 en- 

 . li.-ing supposed much greater, as it is 

 ".y stated that over 700 of their dead were 

 buried by the Brazilians after the capture of 

 the redoubt. 



On the Ii2th of September, a conference was 

 held bet we, n 1 'resident Lopez and President 

 Mitre, but it led to no result, and hostilities 

 were not discontinued. On the 22d of Septem- 

 ber, two divisions of the fleet ascended the river 

 to attack the fortress of Curupaity, which was 

 garrisoned by 15,000 men, and mounted with 

 () pieces of artillery. They bombarded the 

 >s for four hours, but only succeeded in 

 unting three of the Paraguayan puns. 

 The iron-cladd Tamandare', Barrozo, and Brazil, 

 were ordered to advance and force the palisade, 

 forming an obstruction to the approach to the 

 enemy's works. The attempt was successful, 

 and the three vessels closed up to within sixty 

 fathoms of the enemy, pouring in an incessant 

 fire of shot and shell, which was gallantly re- 

 1 by the Paraguayans, to the great damage 

 of the vessels thus engaged. The land forces, 

 under command of General Mitre, soon after 

 the attack by river commenced, i.->ucd from 

 Curuzu, and assaulted the first lino of entrench- 

 ments, close to Curupaity, carrying it in quick 

 time, the Paraguayans withdrawing with all 



their artillry to Cnrnpaity r>roper. The allies 

 advanci-d immediately, and found that, to 

 Curupaity from the line jnst taken, it was ne- 



ry to cross a swamp and destroy t! 



feiisive works that the Paraguayans had tmido 



. Many attempts were made by the allies 



to cross, waiM-de.p in wafer, during whirh 



time, al.ont one hour and a half, they displayed 



great valor ; but all to no purpose,, exposed as 



were to an incessant fire of shot and shell. 



They were at last compelled to retreat, v ith a 



loss of about 5,000 men, mostly killed, among 



whom were a large number of officers. 



The defeat of the allies before Curupaity, put 

 an end to active operations for the year 1866. 

 General Flores with the small remnant of the 

 Urngayan army returned to Montevideo. Pre- 

 sident Mitre evacuated Curuzu, and left with 

 the rest of his army for Tuguitz. The Brazilian 

 fleet which was stationed at Curuzu, remained 

 inactive. On Oct. 14th, 2,000 Paraguayans 

 attempted a coup de main against Curuzu, I ut 

 it was unsuccessful. It was thought that Uru- 

 guay would be unable to continue the war, but 

 the other States made great preparation for re- 

 suming warlike operations in 1867. President 

 Lopez profited by the respite to render his po- 

 sition stronger in Curupaity, by making abattis 

 at all the points of easier access, and mounting 

 a new battery of 30 heavy guns facing the river. 

 It was the opinion of many foreign and native 

 officers that Curupaity cannot be taken without 

 a great sacrifice of lives. The army and the 

 people of Paraguay were reported to have an 

 unshaken confidence in President Lopez. 



PARISIS, Monseigueur PIERRE Louis, Bishop 

 of Arras, Franco, born at Orleans in 1795 ; died 

 at Arras, March 6, 1866. After passing through 

 the usual preparatory course in the ecclesiasti- 

 cal seminary of his native city, he was ordained 

 priest in 1819. He subsequently taught rhet- 

 oric in several of the seminaries of his diocese ; 

 was appointed vicar of St. Paul d'Orleans, and 

 soon after cur6, or parish priest of Gien. In 

 1834, his zeal, piety, and learning, having at- 

 tracted the attention of his superiors, he was 

 raised to the episcopacy and appointed to the 

 diocese of Langres, in the department of the 

 Hautc-Marno, and in 1851 was translated to 

 Arras. In 1853 he was named by the Empe- 

 ror officer of the Legion of Honor. For some 

 time he took a prominent part in the political 

 affairs of the country, and in the first election 

 after the proclamation of the Republic in 1858 

 he was chosen a member of the Constituent 

 Assembly, and soon after was made President 

 of the Committee of Public Worship. After 

 'P d'etat of 1851, he retired from politi- 

 cal lite and confined himself to his episcopal 

 duties arid occasional composition. Among his 

 published works are "Letters to M. de Brodic, 

 also to Thonvenel and Salvandy," " Inquiry con- 

 cerning the Liberty of the Clmrch," '-Impieties 

 and their Tendencies," " Demonstration of the 

 Divinity of Jesus Christ," and "Freethinkers 

 \ ed by Common Sense," written in re- 



