The Paraguayan War is essentially over for…

The Paraguayan War is essentially over for Uruguay, and Flores can count this as a victory, but only at the price of the loss of ninety-five percent of his own troops.

His government had ended on February 15, 1868.

Four days after stepping down as President, he is murdered by a group of unidentified assassins.

Although Flores' killers are not formally identified, it may be added that as a background to his assassination is the intermittent Uruguayan civil war which will continue throughout much of the nineteenth century between Colorados and Blancos.

Flores old rival, former Blanco president Bernardo Berro, is assassinated the same day.