ADMIRAL COMMANDING PERU NAVY MINISTER WAR W/ CHILE DE LA HAZA LETTER SIGNED 1879
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Here’s anHistoric 1879 Document Signed by a Peruvian Admiral Thanking a US Admiral!ANTONIO A. DE LA HAZA Commandante General Marina de Guerra del Perú(1825 –1891)COMMANDINGGENERAL OF THE PERUVIAN NAVY 1878-1879MINISTER OF WAR AND NAVY1877REAR ADMIRAL and COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE PERUVIANNAVAL SQUADRON 1868-1876&HEROOF PERU’S WAR WITH CHILE “the war of the Pacific” FIGHTING FOR THE DEFENSE OFCALLAO BEFORE THE BLOCKADE OF THE CHILEAN SQUADRONIn1858, while a frigate Captai...n in command of the brig Admiral Guise, dela Haza participated in the blockade of Guayaquil, during the Campaign of Ecuador (1858-1859).HERE’S AN 1879 DOCUMENT SIGNED BY COMMANDING GENERAL HAZA OF THEPERUVIAN NAVY FOR ASSISTANCE GIVEN TO THE PERUVIAN VESSEL OF WAR “LA UNION” BY UNITED STATES ADMIRAL FREDERICK RODGERS* WHILE HE WAS IN COMMAND OFTHE GUNBOAT “USS ADAMS” IN THE PACIFIC SQUADRON IN 1879, DURING PERU’S WAR WITHCHILE!*FREDERICK RODGERS(1819 – 1892)CIVILWAR UNION NAVY COMMANDER, POST-WAR REAR ADMIRAL & SPANISH-AMERICAN WARCOMMANDER OF THE ASIATIC SQUADRON!The document measures 8½” x 10½” andis in very fine condition.<<>::<>>Biographyof Antonio A. de la HazaAntonio Ambrosio de la Haza Rodríguez ( Paita, December 27, 1825- Lima, November 24, 1891) was a Peruvian naval officer and sailor. He was commanding general of Marina (1878-1879). Biography Son of the captain Manuel de la HazaMartínez and Ana María Rodríguez. His father, of Basque origin, arrived in Lima as a child, serving first in the colonial navy, then settled in Piura and naturalizedPeruvian. At the age of 13 he began sailing inthe merchant marine, traveling to Mexicoand Chile. In 1841 he joined the navy, serving aboard the Constitution brig, and then on the Yungaycorvette. He was already a second lieutenant , when he embarked on the Alert schooner, butshortly after was dismissed for political reasons and banished to Central America(1843). In 1845 he was readmitted, servingaboard the Vigilante pailebote. In 1846 it passed to the schooner Libertad . In 1849 he was serving in the GeneralGamarra brig when that ship was sent to the coast of Californiato protect Peruvian citizens during the so-called gold rush. He remained in the Gamarrauntil 1851, when he was entrusted with the command of the Titicacasteamer, being promoted to first lieutenant . In 1852 he returned to the schooner Libertad. In 1854 he went on to exercise thecommand of the schooner Hector , as a corvette captain . In 1853 he took command of the brig AdmiralGuise and in 1858 he was already a frigate captain. He participated in the blockade ofGuayaquil, during the campaign of Ecuador (1858-1859). In 1868 he was already Rear Admiraland Commander-in-Chief of the Squadron. In 1872 he traveled commissioned to Europeand the United States. During the second constitutionalgovernment of Mariano Ignacio Prado was Minister of War and Navy (1877) and GeneralCommander of the Navy (1878-1879), being successor to the then captain Miguel Grau. During the war of the Pacific, he participated in the defense of Callao before the blockade of the Chilean squadron, where his nephew Carlos Condellserved. He married Micaela Campos Gorostidi;daughter of Felix María Campos and Josefa GorostidiSeminario who, in second marriages, married General Antonio de la GuerraMontero. References · Arosemena Garland, Geraldo (1979): Admiral Miguel Grau (7th edition), p. 127. Lima-Peru: Banco de Credito del Peru · Basadre Grohmann, Jorge : History of theRepublic of Peru (1822 - 1933) . Volume 7, p.215. 9th edition. Editedby Editora El Comercio SA Lima, 2005. ISBN 9972-205-62-2 · Ortiz Sotelo, Jorge -Castañeda Martos, Alicia (2007): «Haza Rodríguez, Ambrosio Antonio de la». In PeruvianBiographical Maritime Dictionary , pp. 134-135.Association of Ibero-American Maritime and NavalHistory (ed.).<<>::<>>Biographyof Rear Admiral Frederick RodgersRear AdmiralFrederick W. Rodgers (3 October 1842 – 3 November 1917) was an officerin the United States Navy.He fought in the American Civil Warand rose to be the last commander of the AsiaticSquadron. He was a grandson of U.S. Navy CommodoreMatthew C. Perry.[1][2]Naval careerRodgers was born in Havre de Grace, Maryland, on 3 October 1842, a son of Robert Smith Rodgers (1809–1891) and the formerSarah Perry (1818–1905), a daughter of U.S. Navy CommodoreMatthew C. Perry(1794–1858).[3][4]He was appointed as an acting midshipmanon 25 September 1857 and attended the United States Naval Academyin Annapolis, Maryland, from 1857 to 1861, completing his studies just after the April 1861outbreak of the American Civil War.[5][6]Promoted to midshipman on 1 June 1861 and to acting masteron 10 June 1861, Rodgers' first assignment was aboardthe sailing frigate USS Santeein the Gulf of Mexico as part of the Unionblockade of the Confederate States of America.After Santee captured her second blockaderunner – the hermaphrodite brigDelta carrying a cargo of saltfrom Liverpool, England– on 27 October 1861, Rodgers was placed aboard Delta in command of her prizecrew.[5][6][7]Rodgers was promoted to lieutenanton 16 July 1862 and from 1862 to 1863 served aboard the gunboatUSS Kineo, seeing action along the MississippiRiver in Louisianaat the First Battle ofDonaldsonville on 9 August 1862 and in actions at Port Hudsonand College Point.He transferred to the screw steamerUSS Grand Gulfin 1863 and served aboard her in the North AtlanticBlockading Squadron from 1863 to 1864 and the West Gulf Blockading Squadronfrom 1864 to 1865, and Grand Gulf successfully intercepted a number ofblockade runners during his tour. In 1865 he served aboard the steamsloop-of-warUSS Seminole.[5][6]After the war, Rodgers joined the MilitaryOrder of the Loyal Legion of the United States—amilitary society of officers who had served in the Union armed forces.Promoted to lieutenant commanderon 26 July 1866, Rodgers served aboard the newly commissioned screw steamer USS Chattanoogafor a short time in 1866 before reporting for duty later that year aboard thenewly recommissionedscrew sloop-of-war USS Sacramento.After Sacramento ran aground and was wrecked in the Bayof Bengal on 6 June 1867, Rodgers served aboard the steamer USS Michiganon the Great Lakes from 1868 to 1869before duty in the North Pacific Squadronsuccessively aboard the screw steamer USS Pensacolaand sailing sloop-of-war USS St. Mary'sin 1870 and the steam sloop-of-war USS Saranacfrom 1871 to 1872.[5][6]After leaving the North Pacific Squadron, Rodgers performed ordnanceduty at the Washington Navy Yardin Washington, D.C., in 1872. He was the first commanding officerof the newly acquired steamer USS Despatchfrom 1873 to 1876, during which time the ship was engaged in special service.He was promoted to commanderon 4 February 1875.[5][6]After duty as a lighthouse inspector on the GreatLakes from 1876 to 1877, Rodgers was the commanding officer of the screw gunboatUSS Adamsin the South Atlantic Squadronand later in the Pacific Squadronfrom 1878 to 1879. He then served a second tour as a lighthouse inspector, thistime at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1881 to 1883 before a tour from 1883 to 1886 as commanding officer of the receivingship USS Independenceat Mare Island Navy Yardin Vallejo, California.He was a lighthouse inspector again from 1888 to September 1890, in charge ofthe Lighthouse Depot, and was promoted to captainon 26[5]or 28[6]February 1890 (sources vary).[5][8]Rodgers returned to sea as commanding officer of the protectedcruiser USS Philadelphiafrom September 1890 to July 1892, then served as Supervisor of the Harborof New York from July 1892 to September 1893. His next tour wasas Captain of the Yardat the New York Navy Yardin Brooklyn, New York, from 1893 to 1896. He took command of the new battleshipUSS Massachusettsas her first commanding officer when she was commissioned on 10 June 1896.During the Spanish–American Warhe commanded the coastal monitor USS Puritanwhich operated in both the Cuban and Puerto Rican Campaigns. Following the war, he served as President of the Board of Inspection andSurvey from 1 December 1898 until 1901, being promoted to commodoreon 25 September[5]or 25 December[6]1898 (sources vary) and to rear admiral on 3 March 1899.[5][6]In May 1901, Rodgers became Senior SquadronCommander within the AsiaticSquadron, and, on 1 March 1902, he became the commander ofthe entire Asiatic Squadron, which was engaged in combat during the Philippine–American Warat the time. He was the squadron's last commander, asat the end of his tour on 29 October 1902 the Asiatic Squadron was abolishedand its responsibilities were assumed by the new United States Asiatic Fleet.[5][9]While in the Asiatic Squadron, Rodgers was at the center of a legal case, FrederickRodgers v. United States, involving a claim Rodgers made for additional payhe believed was due him and eight other rear admirals in the wake of thepassage by the United States Congressof the Navy Personnel Act of 3 March 1899. The Supreme Court of theUnited States heard arguments in the case on 26 February 1902 andruled against Rodgers on 26 April 1902.[10]Rodgers was commandant of the New York Navy Yard from 1 April 1903 until 3October 1904, when he retired from the Navy upon reaching the mandatoryretirement age of 62.[11][12]Retirement and deathIn retirement, Rodgers lived in Washington, D.C., for a time. He wasinvolved in various activities, such as serving in 1907 as senior member of anaval board considering land boundaries at Honoluluin the Territory of Hawaii.[13]Rodgers died of a stroke at his home in St. Jameson Long Island, New York, on 3November 1917. He was survived by his wife and a son.[3]Rogers is buried at Rock Creek Cemeteryin Washington, D.C.[14][See Wikipedia article forfootnote references.]<<>> The Peruvian NavyThe Peruvian Navy (Spanish: Marina de Guerra del Perú, abbreviated MGP, literally "Peruvian War Navy") is the branchof the PeruvianArmed Forcestasked with surveillance, patrol and defense on lakes, rivers and the PacificOcean up to 200 nautical miles (370 km; 230 mi) from the Peruvian littoral.Additional missions include assistance in safeguarding internal security, conducting disaster reliefoperations and participating in international peacekeepingoperations. The Marina de Guerra del Perú celebrates the anniversary of itscreation in 1821 on October 8 and also commemorates the decisive Battleof Angamos, the final part of the naval campaign of the War of the Pacificbetween Peru and Chile at the end of 1879. 19th centuryThe Marina de Guerra del Perú was established on 8 October 1821 bythe government of general José de San Martín.Its first actions were undertaken during the War of Independence (1821–1824)using captured Spanish warships. The Peruvian NavalInfantry was also formed during the war with Spain, performing successfully intheir first battle where they seized Arica from the Spanish.[2]Shortly afterwards it was engaged in the war against the Gran Colombia(1828–1829) during which it conducted a blockadeagainst the seaport of Guayaquiland then helped with the occupation of this city by Peruvian forces. It sawfurther action during the wars of the Peru-Bolivian Confederacy(1836–1839) and during the Chincha Islands Warwith Spain (1866). The breakout of the War of the Pacific(1879–1883) caught the Peruvian Navy unprepared and with inferior forces incomparison with the Chilean Navy. Even so, hit-and-run tacticscarried out by Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau, commanderof the ironcladHuáscar, delayed the Chilean advance by six months until his death and defeat at the Battleof Angamos. I am a proud member of the Universal Autograph Collectors Club(UACC), The Ephemera Society of America, the Manuscript Society and theAmerican Political Items Collectors (APIC) (member name: John Lissandrello). Isubscribe to each organizations' code of ethics and authenticity is guaranteed.~Providing quality service and historical memorabilia online for over 20years.~
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