Juan Manuel de Cagigal
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Juan Manuel de Cagigal | |
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| Birth name | Juan Manuel Cagigal de la Vega y Martínez Niño |
| Born | 1 February 1757 Cádiz, Spain |
| Died | 26 November 1823 1823 (aged 65–66) Guanabacoa (Cuba) |
| Allegiance | Spain |
| Battles / wars | |
Juan Manuel Cagigal de la Vega y Martínez Niño[1] (1757–1823) was a Spanish army commander and Captain general of Cuba, the third member of his family to hold that post. Although he had been appointed Captain general of Venezuela]] in 1817, he did not take up that appointment and was appointed Captain general of Cuba in 1819.[1]
Biography
[edit]Early career
[edit]Later career
[edit]After more than two decades of service, in 1799 Cagigal was posted to Venezuela as commander-in-chief of the Veteran Infantry Battalion of Caracas and the King's Lieutenant, an appointment which included the duties of deputy governor and deputy captain general of Venezuela.[1]
From 1804 to 1809 he served as governor of New Andalusia Province (capital, Cumaná) in eastern Venezuela. Promoted to Field Marshal, he was named captain general of Venezuela in 1817. He oversaw the royalist advances carried out by José Tomás Boves, who acted in an independent manner. Cajigal resigned upon the arrival of Pablo Morillo in 1815 and left for Spain the following year.
In 1819 he was appointed captain general of Cuba and oversaw the restoration of the Spanish Constitution of 1812 in 1820. That same year he resigned due to health problems and retired to Guanabacoa, where he died in 1823.
His cousin, General Juan Manuel Cagigal y Monserrat, was Francisco de Miranda's friend and commanding officer at the Battle of Pensacola during the American Revolutionary War.
His cousin-once-removed, whom he raised, was the Venezuelan mathematician Juan Manuel Cajigal y Odoardo.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c (in Spanish). Martín-Lanuza, Alberto; Gabriel Rodríguez Pérez and José Manuel Serrano Álvarez. "Juan Manuel Cagigal de la Vega y Martínez Niño". Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (DB~e). Real Academia de la Historia. Retrieved 26 January 2025.
Sources
[edit]- Bencomo Barrios, Héctor. "Juan Manuel Cajigal y Niño," Diccionario de Historia de Venezuela. Caracas: Fundacíon Polar, 1997. ISBN 980-6397-37-1
- Parra Pérez, Caracciolo. Historia de la Primera República de Venezuela. Madrid: Ediciones Guadarrama, 1959.
- Stoan, Stephen K. Pablo Morillo and Venezuela, 1815–1820. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959.
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