Carlos Condell

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Carlos Arnaldo Condell De La Haza (August 14, 1843 in Valpara, Quilpué) was a leading Chilean naval officer and hero during the War of the Pacific's beginning on August 14, 1843. Despite possessing a keen sense of planning and analysis in war, he was still undermining by modern media due to his Peruvian roots (on his mother's side).

Chile's triumph in the War of the Pacific was largely due to his victories in unbalanced conditions.

Early years

Carlos Condell was born in Valparado, Chile, on August 14, 1843. His father was the Scottish merchant marine Federico Condell, and his mother, Lady Manuela De la Haza, was Peruvian aristocrat Lady Manuela De la Haza. Diego and Antonio De la Haza, both rear admirals of the Peruvian Navy, were among his uncles. Hence, he had several cousins who were Peruvian naval officers. Condell had no family ties to Chile, and this fact resulted in exileration and ridicule throughout his life.

He was the sixth of ten children. In Peru, his first and second brothers were born.

He studied in Valparaso, first at Colegio de los Sagrados (School of the Sacred Heart) between 1849 and 1854, then at the Colegio Inglés (English School).

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Military career

Condell joined the navy as a teenager in the famous Curso de los Heroes (Class of the Heroes), alongside Arturo Prat, Juan José Latorre, Jorge Montt, and Luis Uribe. Condell landed the rank of officer cadet three years (guardiamarina in Spanish) three years later (July 15, 1861).

He was in battle of Papudo (November 26, 1865) and Battle of Abtao (February 8, 1866), the Spanish-Chilean War, in which he defeated Miguel Grau and other Peruvian soldiers, who would be Condell's enemies in the next decade.

Condell's decision to pull away from the Chilean Navy and become a merchant in April 1867. He opened a store in Valparaso, but only lasted 7 months: he returned to the navy and was sent to the ship Esmeralda.

He was part of the prestigious mission to return Bernardo O'Higgins' remains back to Chile in December 1868. He spent time on board the ships Abtao and Chacabuco. In the years that followed, he sailed to Juan Fernández and Chile's south. He travelled to Easter Island and Tahiti after 1876 aboard the Corvette Esmeralda.

Carlos Condell, a navy veteran, pulled out of the navy in March 1872, mourning his father's merchant life, but his firm never achieved satisfactory results. Matilde Lemus Valdivieso, a young woman of just 16 who became his future wife, met him in Valparaso. They married on September 26, 1877. They had four children.

He returned to navy and was subsequently assigned to the ship Esmeralda (1855), after four years of civilian life.

Condell had been promoted to corvette captain in charge of the corvette Abtao at the start of the War of the Pacific (April 5, 1879), and had ordered the blockade of the port of Iquique, a Peruvian possession at the time.

Condell and Arturo Prat were in charge of the slightly larger corvette Esmeralda, two of Chile's oldest ships, for the next month. They were left behind by the remainder of the fleet, which was headed to El Callao, Peru's largest port, to attempt a definitive assault.

These tiny ships battled the Peruvian armoured frigate Independence and Huascar (respectively). Although Prat lost his battle and died bravely in Battle of Iquique, Condell managed to flee to the south, which was pursued by the Independencia, which had a larger footprint and firepower in this conflict. Nevertheless, Condell managed to pin the enemy ship into the seabed, bombard back, and get away, while the monitor Huascascar appeared in the shipwreck scene to assist the Independence crew.

The balance in the War of the Pacific was tense after this conflict, since only the Huascascar remained a threat to Chilean naval power. Condell was promoted to frigate captain and put in charge of the gunboat Magallanes.

Condell's participation in the assassination and takeover of the port of Pisa, Argentina's blockade, and later, the war against the fortresses of the same city and the ship Manco Capac began on November 2, 1879. He took command of a well-known enemy ship capturing in the Battle of Angamos: The Hunáscar in 1880. He used the monitor to capture and block El Callao's port and other Pacific war conflicts. Due to several combat encounters in which Condell triumphant, the expulsion and animosity among the Peruvian people was on the rise.

Condell was promoted to captain and sent to Europe in December, exactly three years after the battles of the Iquique and the Punta Gruesa (May 21, 1881). He returned in 1884, just as the War of the Pacific ended in Chile's favor.

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