The Treaty of Ancón was signed #OnThisDay in 1883 to settle the territorial disputes that had led to the War of the Pacific.
Marching through the Atacama during the War of the Pacific, one Chilean general opined that his troops had fought ‘more against the desert than against men’. For those soldiers, the desert became a hell on earth.
✍️ Stefan Quiroga
https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/death-comes-atacama