We reached the end of this long series of posts about the war as unnecessary between Spain and young Republic of Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Ecuador. A war that ended after the battle of May 2, 1866 as we shall see. A war between the English largely unknown at that time let alone today. In Peru today, however, this war is very present, and is considered a first-class historical event, along with the war against Chile saltpeter. In the books Peruvians exposed as a great victory, but in English as a great lesson given. We saw in previous entries and therefore not as bald. In fact one was a propaganda war that distracted the two countries of their daily problems that were going to explode at the end of hostilities. Peru and other Latin American countries are claimed as a struggle against imperialism. Spain showed that force was still abroad.
end of hostilities
On June 11, met at Valparaiso two allied squadrons, reinforced now with the ships prsencia Peruvian Huascar and Independence. The Peruvian Admiralty planned to attack the Philippines, but 35 officers resigned Peruvians to give command of the fleet to a foreigner: Jonh Tucker. There were also fears a return of the English fleet, which was anchored in Rio de Janeiro, reinforced in turn by the frigates and Concepción Navas de Tolosa . That
June Ambassador English in Washington outlined the possible reoccupation of the Chincha Islands to the debt. The U.S. government responded on 28 days this month with the threat of applying the Monroe Doctrine.
August 22, the English frigate Gerona Madeira captured in the Chilean corvette Tornado.
was the last act of war. Put the Atlantic Fleet bound for Spain and the Pacific did the same thing, but turning the world, following the route of Elcano, as seen in the novel galdosiana.
IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCES
Both Republics as the Elizabethan monarchy, entered in separate economic crisis, after forgetting the need for war.
The war ended with an astonishing multiplication Peruvian debt, given the costs of rearmament as cutting exports of guano. In just over ten years came to a very cruel war against its former ally Chile (Guerra del Salitre or Pacific ).
the English monarchy in 1866 entered a rapid economic crisis after a decade of high economic growth. In 1868, Elizabeth II was dethroned and went into the so-called Revolutionary Sexenio or Democratic (1868-1874 ): nothing short of a dynasty of Italy (Savoy), a First Republic, and a personal dictatorship of General Serrano, giving rise to the restoration of the Bourbons in the person of Alfonso XII (December 1874), ending and the troubled administration.
THE PEACE TREATY
In 1871, with U.S. mediation, the armistice was signed. However, until 1879 not sign the first peace trated. In Paris the signing of peace with Peru. That year also with Bolivia. Until 1883 not reach peace with Chile. With Ecuador arrive in 1885, no less than years after the battle diecinieve El Callao, and that that Ecuador had no direct confrontation with Spain.
Therefore, until the mid-nineteenth century 80, ie, sixty years after the wars of liberation, it would lead to the normalization of the relations of the old metropolis with the English American republics. Long time, no doubt, and that that Spain still had two Caribbean islands: Cuba and Puerto Rico. The lost in 1898 in an unequal war against the United States, which also netted the Philippines.
SOME THOUGHTS
Peruvian In my travels, and after reading some of the history of the Andean country, and my conversations with colleagues from Lima I could see several things.
* I remembered that there was this war.
* is surprised that a very important place in Madrid bearing the name of Callao, in memory of the battle of Dos de Mayo. (There's another bullring that name and that it is crucial in Hispanic history, it marked the inception of the Napoleonic invasion in 1808).
* Reading and entries on Internet blogs, Internet and maximize Peruvian mock combat, minimizing casualties.
plates in the Plaza del Dos de Mayo in Lima reminders of combat.
(Ceded cordially by the teacher and blogger Amautacuna of History, Arturo Gómez Alarcón )
former palace, now municipal House of Culture in La Punta de El Callao.
corner of El Callao, near the seaport and the Real Felipe. 
today El Callao is the port of Lima. Administratively, it is a different city, but is joined to the Peruvian capital on a street that is about 12 or 13 kms to downtown Lima. Even a different province, the Constitutional Province of Callao. It is a problem because taxis refused to come and go normally Lima-Callao. La Punta is a district, with lively ceviche and beach to walk to the sea breeze.
can be visited at Callao, in addition to the Real Felipe fortress, a museum of the Peruvian Navy, a submarine and a theme park police. The streets are very picturesque, but somewhat conflicting ICLS hours.
These photos pulled me in April this year in the madileña Plaza de Callao.
Cinemas, large stores, luxury cafes, streets, outsourced, large numbers of pedestrians, with some going to work fast or quiet or idle more tourists, but the appearance of the central Madrid square, recently renovated and pedestrian, with the noise reduction of traffic congestion center of Madrid. Today it is rather a square rather than remember the war, is as the name of El Callao, as there are streets and squares with names of other cities in Peru: Cuzco and Lima, both very impportantes in the financial center of Madrid, in the elegant Paseo de la Castellana. In fact the war was unútil for both sides. No I think it had any benefits from it. The propaganda and nationalism are recurring internal difficulties governments, following the maxim of Machiavelli.
The victims of both contenders paid the tension that the two governments would not fix and, when tried, were overwhelmed: the Peruvian to be overthrown by the masses calling for war and that war, English, after realize that he had gone too far, was seen by Admiral Galician disobeyed. Both got their way: the sudameriocanos believing they had defeated the English imperialism and Admiral elaborated in Lima unable to do in Valparaiso. In fact, South American unity was an illusion, since the war between the former allies was imminent. British and American imperialism continued driving, indirectly, those countries.
Today in the Plaza de Callao in Madrid, if you ask why that place, surely no one could answer. At best answer that as a tribute to that South American city. Ignore this war told.
Today, too, and fortunately, two hundred years after the liberation movements that have elapsed, Hispanic, relations between Spain and almost all American countries are very good, with the addition of massive immigration in Spain and the English tourist visits in those lands that make mutual understanding progresses slowly.
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