. "Bolivian"@en . . . . "Colonel Eduardo Abaroa Hidalgo (October 13, 1838, San Pedro de Atacama \u2013 March 23, 1879) was Bolivia's foremost hero of the War of the Pacific (1879\u20131883), which pitted Chile against Bolivia and Peru. He was one of the leaders of the civilian resistance to the Chilean invasion at the Battle of Top\u00E1ter. Abaroa was an engineer by trade, working in a silver mine located in the coastal region of Litoral, which Chile took from Bolivia during the War of the Pacific. During the Battle of Top\u00E1ter (23 March 1879), the first armed clash of the war, Colonel Abaroa was part of a badly outnumbered Bolivian force defending a bridge that crossed the Top\u00E1ter River and gave access to the city of Calama, an important desert oasis on the road to Bolivia. Refusing to surrender, after the outnumbered Bolivian military forces withdrew, he fought to his last breath, a feat that later transformed him into a revered national hero. When, injured and surrounded, he was asked to surrender by the Chilean forces, he provided an answer that has gone into Bolivian folklore: \"\u00BFRendirme yo? \u00A1Que se rinda su abuela, carajo!\" (\"Surrender? Your grandmother [is who] should surrender, you bastard!\", or \"Surrender, me? Let your grandmother surrender, dammit!\", or, more literally, \"Surrender, me? That your grandmother surrender helself, fuck!\"), equivalent to saying \"Surrender? Surrender my ass!\". According to Chilean folklore he answered: \"Quien, Yo?\" (\"Who, me?\")"@en . . . "Colonel Eduardo Abaroa Hidalgo (October 13, 1838, San Pedro de Atacama \u2013 March 23, 1879) was Bolivia's foremost hero of the War of the Pacific (1879\u20131883), which pitted Chile against Bolivia and Peru. He was one of the leaders of the civilian resistance to the Chilean invasion at the Battle of Top\u00E1ter."@en . . "Calama, Chile"@en . "participation in War of the Pacific"@en . . . . "1879-03-23"^^ . . "1838-10-13"^^ . . "Eduardo Abaroa"@en . . "Engineer"@en . . . "Eduardo Abaroa"@en .