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Week 04
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Miguel María Grau Seminario, was aPeruvian military sailor and politician,and posthumous
Grand Admiral of thePeruvian Navy, born on July 27, 1834in Piura. Miguel Grau always
traveledin a ship, but the ship disappeared inthe naval combat of Punta Gorda. Some
time later, he won the navalcombat of Iquique, sinking thecorvette, Esmeralda. This
was the first occasion in which Grau showed his greathuman sensibility, since he not only
avoided harming the civilian population, butalso saved the shipwrecked sailors of the enemy
ship. Finally, another importantact 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,engaging in an unequal combat. Grau died in the first minutes of the fight, dueto the
effects of a grenade fired by the battleship Cochrane, which destroyed hisbody.His last
sentence was.