the Gunners Grieve
As referred Basadre in San Juan and Miraflores fought with rifles and weapons caps oiled so badly that they had become "useless." But the situation has been worse if it had emerged the figure of John C. engineer Downing Grieve. This San Marcos, son of Scotland, had participated in the construction of the Oroya Railway, was 31 when he volunteered to repair and maintain the army's artillery. Then designed a breech-loading cannon (an advanced model for the time) and offered to ask the government made only a "small amount" for the tools. But the money never arrived, and Grieve funded all the work and when he ran out of money the National Club promoted a collection so he could finish his work. With railroad tracks and bronze working 7:00 to 22:00, seven days a week, managed to finish Grieve 42 guns and 10,400 bullets. He himself, with his workers, came to drive one of these devices in the defense of Lima. Consummate defeat in Miraflores, the Chileans captured the guns (except one who was buried and is now a relic of the army), and tested their effectiveness. So much so they wanted to take him to work for them. Grieve fled to Guayaquil and only returned to Peru at the end of the war. He was appointed head of the Mint until his death in 1905, was a consultant on issues of weapons. It is said that once the State wished to pay the debt, but given the poverty of the national treasury that was not possible.
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