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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Bombardment of Valparaiso (31 March 1866) happened during the Chincha Islands War, when a Spanish fleet shelled, burned and destroyed the undefended port of Valparaiso and the Chilean merchant fleet.After the humiliating defeat at the Battle of Papudo and the indecisive Battle of Abtao, Rear Admiral Casto Méndez Núñez was ordered to take punitive action against South American ports. When the Chilean government ordered that vessels communicating with the Spanish fleet should not be allowed to enter Chilean ports, Méndez Núñez's first target became…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Bombardment of Valparaiso (31 March 1866) happened during the Chincha Islands War, when a Spanish fleet shelled, burned and destroyed the undefended port of Valparaiso and the Chilean merchant fleet.After the humiliating defeat at the Battle of Papudo and the indecisive Battle of Abtao, Rear Admiral Casto Méndez Núñez was ordered to take punitive action against South American ports. When the Chilean government ordered that vessels communicating with the Spanish fleet should not be allowed to enter Chilean ports, Méndez Núñez's first target became the most important and undefended Chilean city of Valparaiso.