“AÑO DE LA UNIDAD, LA PAZ Y EL DESARROLLO”

(AC-S04) Week 04 - Homework: Assignment - A trip to the past

MIGUEL GRAU SEMINARIO

Miguel María Grau Seminario, was a Peruvian military sailor and politician, and

posthumous Grand Admiral of the Peruvian Navy, born on July 27, 1834 in Piura. Miguel

Grau always traveled in a ship, but the ship disappeared in the naval combat of Punta

Gorda. Sometime later, he won the naval combat of Iquique, sinking the corvette,

Esmeralda. This was the first occasion in which Grau showed his great human sensitivity,

since he not only avoided harming the civilian population, but also saved the shipwrecked

sailors of the enemy ship. Finally, another important act of Grau was the combat of
Angamos. This it was that on October 8, 1879, being in front of Punta Angamos, he was

surrounded by two enemy divisions, engaged in an unequal combat. Grau died in the first

minutes of the fight, due to the effects of a grenade fired by the battleship Cochrane, which

destroyed his body. His last sentence was:

"No one gives up on this ship"