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Watercolour made by the
British naval officer Rudolph de Lisle in 1881, showing a part of the 1st Peruvian defence line where the battle of San Juan and Chorrillos was fought. In the background you can see the Morro Solar, a place where the Chilean attack was more difficult and bloody, and where Otto
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After his departure from the army, and with the aim of seeking a new life project, he associated with his brother Karl, who had also been in the army and had participated in the Franco-Prussian War. Both, informed of the good working conditions and the prosperity of Chile through the German consul in
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establishment in the area called "Toco". There he suffered an unfortunate accident, the result of an accidental shot from a revolver that pierced his liver from band to band. Due to the severity of the wound, he was transferred to
ValparaĂso to be treated by a doctor named von Shroeders, who managed
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Vicuña
Mackenna affirms that he served was the Regiment 11th Silesian Grenadiers, stationed at Altona. For his part, Siebert Held points out that he served in the Regiment 62nd King Frederick III Grenadiers of Altona, the same regiment in which his brother Karl served as an
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In the aftermath of the battle, Morro Solar was occupied by
Chilean troops, who recovered Moltke's remnants. His body was repatriated to ValparaĂso under the special concern of the Bernstein family, and was later buried on 4 April in the port's
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Mackenna, the details of Otto's killed are not known with certainty. It has been pointed out that he died defending himself in a trench, being later torn to pieces, or that he died during the advance to the high Peruvian
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of LĂĽbeck together with his older brother Karl, after his father's change of residence to that city due to the
Prussian annexation of the province he administered. In that compound he carried out his studies in the
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Having observed his good performance in the land campaign, Colonel
Domingo Toro Herrera, commander of the Regiment Chacabuco, requested that Moltke be transferred to his command and appointed him as his
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in the face of impending war. His brother Karl, meanwhile, took his place at the sugar refinery. Chilean
Colonel Eckers assigned Otto the rank of second lieutenant in the Regiment ArtillerĂa de Marina.
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and, in 1875, was promoted to lieutenant. But he soon resigned because of the boredom that the job in the barracks produced, his meagre salary and a certain irregularity in the compound.
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Christian Graf von Moltke (1850–1892), immigrated to Chile with Otto in 1876 and married Delfina Natividad Winslow (1861–1926), with whom he had descendants in that country.
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When hostilities began against Peru and
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My dear brother Karl, at this moment we have just anchored in the bay (of Curayaco); the rest of the army is already in
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and the rest of the ports of the Bolivian coast. Later, he was assigned to garrison with a company of his regiment a
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He also had a half sister, from his father's second marriage to Agathe Frederikke Charlotte Olshausen (1834-1909);
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296:Otto von Moltke was born on 13 August 1851 in
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472:Campaign of Tarapacá
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362:Imperial German Army
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182:War Medal of 1870/71
133:Imperial German Army
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372:Emigration to Chile
202:Franco-Prussian War
163:Franco-Prussian War
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468:Battle of Tarapacá
394:, on the sailboat
286:Helmuth von Moltke
206:War of the Pacific
167:War of the Pacific
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885:Siebert Held 2006
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459:HĂşascar
454:capture
435:nitrate
411:dancing
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152:Captain
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