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	1865 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,300 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom were Union survivors of the Andersonville Prison.
		June 11 - Brazilian navy squadron defeats Paraguayan navy at Riachuelo.
		June 19 - American Civil War: Union Major General Gordon Granger lands at Galveston, Texas and informs the people of Texas of the Emancipation Proclamation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1865 (1665 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : War of the Triple Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In June 1865 Brazilian naval forces defeated a Paraguayan flotilla on the Paraná River at Riachuelo, near the Argentine city of Corrientes.
		In February Brazilian armoured vessels broke through Paraguayan defenses at the river fortress of Humaitá, near the confluence of the Paraná and Paraguay rivers, and pressed on to bombard Asunción, the capital.
		Argentina and Brazil annexed about 140,000 km² (55,000 square miles) of Paraguayan territory: Argentina took much of the Misiones region and part of the Chaco between the Bermejo and Pilcomayo rivers; Brazil enlarged its Mato Grosso province from annexed territory by claiming for itself territories that had been disputed with Paraguay before the war.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /War_of_the_Triple_Alliance (758 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Buenos Aires
		The Río de la Plata (Plate, or Silver, River), the estuary of which has a maximum width of more than 108 miles, is about 43 miles wide at Buenos Aires.
		Vessels of lower tonnage anchor at the little port of Boca del Riachuelo, the mouth of a comparatively small stream which empties into the Plata south of the city.
		Both these ports are subject to the necessity of constant dredging to counteract the silting-up of the bottom by the action of the stream.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03035a.htm (1525 words)

	Free Essay Brazil: Country Profile Essay
		Some railroads were introduced in the 19th century, mainly connected with mines, but in the country as a whole there are few railroads for general passenger travel.
		The first of the Amazon highways connected Brasilia to Belem at the mouth of the Amazon river, while the most recent links the west of the Amazon to the industrial southeast, providing a route along which much of the newly felled timer is carried to the coast.
		It is located near the Atlantic Ocean coast, on the broad Río de la Plata, an estuary at the mouth of the Paraná and Paraguay rivers.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=25335 (3859 words)

	The Mother of All Maritime Links: Page 32 of 47
		The Baltimore Maritime Museum (Preserving USS Torsk SS 423, USCGC Taney WHEC 37 and the lightship Chesapeake, Maryland)
		The Campbell River Maritime Heritage Centre (Preserving the 1927 seiner BCP 45
		The Mississippi River Museum and Woodward River Boat Museum (Dubuque, Iowa)
	www.boat-links.com /linklists/boatlink-32.html (2768 words)

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