Before revision: In 1870, former U.S. general Alvin Peterson Hovey, member of the United States legation to Perú, described the battle as inconclusive but glorious for both countries in a letter to the U.S. Secretary of State Hamilton Fish: Aftermath A couple of months after the battle, the famed ships of the War of the Pacific, Huascar and Independencia, were added to the Peruvian fleet.
After revision: In 1870, former U.S. general Alvin Peterson Hovey, member of the United States legation to Perú, described the battle as inconclusive but glorious for both countries in a letter to the U.S. Secretary of State Hamilton Fish: Aftermath A couple of months after the battle, the famed ships of the War of the Pacific, Huáscarironclad and Independencia, were added to the Peruvian fleet.