Juan Guillermo More Ruiz (27 February 1833-7 June 1880) was a Peruvian Navy captain who fought and died in the War of the Pacific.
Biography[]
Juan Guillermo More Ruiz was born in Lima, Peru in 1833, the son of Scottish sailor John Moore and his Peruvian wife. He joined the British Royal Navy as an ensign in 1854 before returning to Peru and serving in the Peruvian Navy, commanding a corvette during the Chincha Islands War and taking command of the Southern Fleet in 1877. He commanded the armored frigate Independencia at the Battle of Punta Gruesa during the War of the Pacific, being court-martialed after his ship crashed against a rock and failed to pursue the Chilean schooner Covadonga. He was imprisoned at Arica and was dismissed from the navy, but he returned to the navy as commander of the Manco Capac and disabled the captured Huascar at the Naval Battle of Arica. He later assumed command of Arica's naval batteries, and he was killed at the 1880 Battle of Arica.