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 sensibility, 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, engaging 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"