"Agust\u00EDn Arturo Prat Chac\u00F3n (April 3, 1848, near Ninhue, Chile \u2013 May 21, 1879, Iquique, Peru) was a Chilean lawyer and navy officer. He was killed shortly after boarding the Peruvian armored monitor Hu\u00E1scar at the Naval Battle of Iquique after the ship under his command, the Esmeralda, was rammed by the Peruvian monitor. Prat, as captain of the Esmeralda, was the first to board the Hu\u00E1scar."@en . "*Battle of Papudo\n*Battle of Abtao\nWar of the Pacific"@en . . . . . "1848-04-03"^^ . "Chincha Islands War"@en . "1879-05-21"^^ . . . "*Naval Battle of Iquique"@en . . . . . . . "Iquique, Chile"@en . . . "Arturo Prat"@en . "Agust\u00EDn Arturo Prat Chac\u00F3n"@en . . "near Ninhue, Chile"@en . . "Agust\u00EDn Arturo Prat Chac\u00F3n (April 3, 1848, near Ninhue, Chile \u2013 May 21, 1879, Iquique, Peru) was a Chilean lawyer and navy officer. He was killed shortly after boarding the Peruvian armored monitor Hu\u00E1scar at the Naval Battle of Iquique after the ship under his command, the Esmeralda, was rammed by the Peruvian monitor. Prat, as captain of the Esmeralda, was the first to board the Hu\u00E1scar. During his career, Prat had taken part in several major naval engagements, including battles at Papudo (a coastal city north of Valpara\u00EDso) (1865), and at the Battle of Abtao (1866), at the islet of Abtao across from Chilo\u00E9 Island. Following his death, his name became a rallying cry for Chilean forces, and Arturo Prat has since been considered a national hero. Prat's name is commemorated on numerous plazas (squares), streets, buildings and other structures in Chile. His name has been commemorated by four of Chile's major warships, including a USS Brooklyn class cruiser in the 1950s, a British County class destroyer from 1983 to 2006, and most recently a Dutch Jacob van Heemskerck class frigate transferred to Chile as Capitan Prat in 2006. One of Chile's Antarctic research facilities, Arturo Prat Station, and the Chilean Naval Academy, Escuela Naval Arturo Prat are named after him. His portrait appears on the 10,000 Chilean peso bank note. Also, in 1984 was created Arturo Prat University, with its main campus in Iquique where his heroic deed took place."@en . . . . . . . . . . . .