In 1820 he joined the patriotic army of General José de San Martín, when the liberating expedition arrived on Peruvian shores.

He then became part of the nascent Peruvian squad under the command of Martín Guisse, a veteran British officer from the Battle of Trafalgar.

Allied with two Chilean ships, it faced the Spanish screw frigates Villa de Madrid and Reina Blanca in the Battle of Abtao which was fought on February 7, 1866.

Villar was declared by the Peruvian government “Benemérito de la Patria in heroic and eminent degree” .

During the Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos on January 13, 1881, he was in charge of the Morro Solar batteries, where he fought until the last shot was fired.

394-2016-DE of October 21, 2016, they were exhumed and transferred to the Crypt of the Heroes of the Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro, a ceremony that took place on June 1, 2017, with the presence of Defense Minister Jorge Nieto Montesinos; the Chief of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, Admiral José Luis Paredes Lora ; military, political and ecclesiastical authorities, as well as descendants and relatives of the hero.