Battle of Iquique

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The Battle of Iquique was a pivotal 1879 naval engagement of the War of the Pacific between Chile and Peru, remembered especially for Chilean captain Arturo Prat’s heroic but fatal stand aboard the corvette Esmeralda.

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Arturo Prat Chacón participantIn Battle of Iquique