Francisco de Paula Milán

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Coronel Francisco de P. Milán based on an old photograph

Francisco de Paula Milán (* 1821 - May 8, 1883 in Xalapa , Veracruz ) was an officer in the Mexican army from the group of liberals who fought for the cause of Benito Juarez .

Life

Milán graduated from the University of Puebla with a law degree . In 1847 he joined the National Guard and took part in the defense of the port of Veracruz and other actions against the American invaders , for which he was imprisoned twice.

He fought in the Mexican Reform War (1857–1861) against the conservatives and as part of the French intervention in Mexico .

In 1862 he took part in the great Mexican victory at the Battle of May 5th (Puebla Fortress). According to a communication dated February 7, 1863, he then became the military commander of Veracruz. With his command of a small army he surprised and destroyed a small group of the Foreign Legion on April 30, 1863 in the battle of Camerone . Milán commanded: 1200 soldiers from the army battalions and 600 men from the cavalry auxiliaries. There were also three infantry battalions of 400 men each, that of Córdoba under the command of Colonel Francisco Talavera, that of Xalapa under the command of Coronel Ismael Terán and that of Veracruz under the command of Coronel Rafael Estrada.

According to the official biography, Milán became governor of the state of Veracruz in 1866 .

After the French troops withdrew from Mexico in 1867, Milán assisted the Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria in the siege and occupation of the port of Veracruz.

After the victory of the republic, Milán turned to trade. He composed the operetta La Amiga de las Niñas .

literature

  • Jean Brunon: Camerone . Edition Socomer, Paris 1988.
  • Pierre Nord (text), Guy Sabras (illustrations): Pages de gloire. Sidi-Brahim, Camerone, Bir-Hakim . Edition GP, ​​Paris 1945.
  • Max Patay: Camerone . Edition France-Empire, Paris 1981.
  • Colin Rickards: The hand of Capitain Danjou. Camerone and the French Foreign Legion in Mexico; April 30, 1860 . Crowood Press, Ramsbury 2005, ISBN 1-86126-587-5 .
  • James W. Ryan: Camerone. The French Foreign Legion's greatest battle . Praeger, London 1996, ISBN 0-275-95490-0 .
  • Louis Gaulthier and Charles Jacquot: C'est la Légion . Edition Sofradif, Montreuil-sous-Bois 1972.
  • Horst Ohligschläger (responsible): "Camerone". In: Geschichte , ed. v. Johann Michael Sailer Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Nuremberg 2003, pp. 17-20, ISSN  1617-9412 .
  • Matthias Blazek: "Great role model of the Légion étrangère: The battle of Camerone was fought 150 years ago in Mexico". In: Comradely from Fontainebleau - Bulletin of the Friends of the German Military Plenipotentiary in France , No. 40, June 2013, Adelheidsdorf / Harsewinkel 2013, pp. 21-23.
  • Konrad Ratz: Maximilian and Juárez . Vol. 1: The Second Mexican Empire and the Republic - Background, documents and eyewitness reports, Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1998, p. 119.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, Mestre Ghigliazza, Manuel: Efemérides biográficas, Imp. Aldina, Robredo y Rosell, Mexico City 1945: “MILAN (Francisco de Paula). - General graduado el 10 de Septiembre de 1867 y ex-Gobernador y Comandante Militar de Veracruz. - Murió en Jalapa, de ese Estado, el 8 de Mayo. - Nació en la misma ciudad en 1822. “Different also the year of death: 1884 according to the Archivo de Cancelados, Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional, México. Historia mexicana, Vol. 12, El Colegio de México, 1963, p. 269, footnote 22.
  2. ↑ Revista Jarocha , ed. 31-33 and 36-38, Editorial Citlaltépetl, Mexico City 1964, p. 10.
  3. ↑ Blázquez Domínguez, Carmen (Ed.): Veracruz - Textos de su historia, 2 vol., Instituto Mora, Mexico City 1988, p. 79.
  4. ↑ See Labadie, Teodoro: Las Batallas de Puebla y Camarón 1862–1863 - La intervención francesa en México vista por un soldado francés que llegó con el cuerpo expedicionario, Editorial Orión, Mexico City 1962, p. 181
  5. ↑ Miguel Salvador Rodríguez Azueta: Francisco de Paula Milán, el caballero de Camarón , informativo360.net.
  6. ↑ Cf. Mestre Ghigliazza, as above.
  7. ↑ Pasquel, Leonardo: La generación liberal veracruzana, Colección suma Veracruzana, Editorial Citlaltépetl, Mexico City 1972, p. 277.
personal data
SURNAME Milan, Francisco de Paula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Milán, Francisco de P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican Army Officer
DATE OF BIRTH 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Xalapa , Veracruz
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1883
Place of death Xalapa , Veracruz