Important developments in Chilean national policy followed.

To maintain its vantage and to guard against reprisals, the victorious state had to keep in military readiness on land and sea.

It therefore looked to Prussia for a pattern for its army and to Great Britain for a model for its navy.
Peru had suffered cruelly from the war.

Its territorial losses deprived it of an opportunity to satisfy its foreign creditors through a grant of concessions.

The public treasury, too, was empty, and many a private fortune had melted away.