Antonio de Olaguer y Feliú

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Antonio de Olaguer y Feliú

Antonio de Olaguer y Feliú (born October 14, 1742 in Villafranca del Bierzo , Province of León in Spain ; † 1810 or, according to other sources, on May 19, 1813 in Madrid ) was a Spanish politician and military man .

Coat of arms of Antonio de Olaguer y Feliú as viceroy of the viceroyalty Río de la Plata

Antonio de Olaguer y Feliú first went through military training and then started a career as a soldier. During the tenure of Governor Pedro de Cevallos , he was sent to Buenos Aires as a military specialist . There he was involved in the conquest of the Isla Santa Catalina off the southern Brazilian coast and took part in the siege of Colonia del Sacramento in 1777. In 1783 he was appointed military inspector ( Inspector militar ). In 1787 he married the Creole Ana de Azcuénaga Basavilbaso . From August 2, 1790 to February 11, 1797 he was governor of Montevideo in what is now Uruguay, South America . In 1796 he was appointed sub-inspector general of the entire armed forces of the viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. He was then appointed interim viceroy of the Río de la Plata . He held this position from May 2, 1797 to May 14, 1799. After his return to Spain he was from 1803 Mariscal de campo and Comandante general of Castile , Gipuzkoa and Frontera de Francia and held other offices.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on www.genealogiafamiliar.net , accessed on August 1, 2012
  2. ^ Gonzalo Demaría / Diego Molina de Castro: Historia Genealógica de los Virreyes del Río de la Plata . Junta Sabatina de Especialidades Históricas, Buenos Aires 2001, ISBN 987-1042-01-9 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Data on www.worldstatesmen.org
  4. ↑ Homenaje Guillermo Feliú Cruz , Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional, Editorial Andrés Bello, 1973, p. 221f (Spanish), accessed on February 22, 2012
predecessor Office successor
Joaquín del Pino Sánchez de Rojas Governor of Montevideo
1790–1797 		José de Bustamante y Guerra
Pedro Melo de Portugal y Villena Viceroy of the Río de la Plata
1797–1799 		Gabriel de Avilés
personal data
SURNAME Olaguer y Feliú, Antonio de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1742
PLACE OF BIRTH Villafranca del Bierzo
DATE OF DEATH 1810
Place of death Madrid