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During the commemorative ceremony of the Army Glories, held in the Alpatacal courtyard of the Military School, President Sebastián Piñera made the wrong reference to a person from the Pacific War.
On the occasion, the president mentioned that in the past there were occasions when army troops gave their lives in combat, “as did, for example, Colonel Pedro Lagos in the capture of Morro de Arica, or Captain Ignacio Carrera Pinto in the battle of La Concepción ”.
However, Pedro Lagos Marchant, the military leader in charge of capturing the nose, did not die during the battle. Strictly speaking, he did not die in combat either, but his death occurred in Concepción in 1884, shortly after the conflict between Chile and the republics of Peru and Bolivia ended.
“Throughout the War of the Pacific, he systematically hid that he suffered from a serious liver disease, an ailment that caused his death in 1884, as soon as the conflict had ended,” the writer and journalist Guillermo Parvex explained to Culto last June.
The heat of the Morro de Arica combat did claim the life of the Peruvian chief of defense of the fortress, Colonel Francisco Bolognesi. “There are those who point out that Bolognesi’s decision to fight in Arica was irrational, that he had to surrender, but those were men from the 19th century; The idea of giving blood for the homeland was very much alive in them, much more than in us ”, details the Peruvian historian Daniel Parodi.
For his part, Captain Ignacio Carrera Pinto did die in July 1882, during the fierce combat in the town of Concepción, located in the Peruvian highlands.
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