A crusade and an award inspired on Grau
PIURA CITY; Peru – Miguel Grau Seminario (1834-1879) was a Piura-native marine and politician who immortalized during the so-called War of Pacific, that blasted between Peru and Chile in 1879, and that had one of its greatest episodes to Angamos Combat, October 8 th that year, when he died from a projectile blasted into the command tower of Huáscar Monitor, today a war trophy exhibited in Talcahuano, Chile. Grau is not only considered a hero but he is recognized as a pioneer of the international humanitarian right in time of war, when he ordered to rescue Chilean castaway marines whom he had previously attacked during the Iquique Combat (May 21 st , 1879), so he was nicknamed as The Gentleman of the Sea. In his memory, Peru’s Navy, Grau Foundation, and Telefónica del Perú have developed a so-called values crusade for eight years, named We Are Grau, Let’s Be It Forever (paraphrasing the first verse of the Peruvian national anthem, that says: “We are free, let’s be it fo...