Why Iquique defines Huáscar in Chilean memory

Why does English-language coverage treat the Battle of Iquique as a footnote when Chile remembers it as Huáscar's defining action?

Iquique mattered especially to Chilean national identity, so its public importance there greatly exceeds the battle's wider international profile.

The exchange contrasts Huáscar's wider service history with the national importance of the Battle of Iquique in Chile. A Chilean viewer notes that the engagement has a national holiday and that one participant appears on a banknote, while English-language accounts often treat it as a footnote. Popular historical memory can be deep in one country and shallow elsewhere, depending in part on public reaction at the time. Outside Chile and naval-history circles, Iquique was not widely treated as a major battle. Within Chile, its place in national identity made it the defining public story of Huáscar.