John Devereux

John Devereux (* 1778 in Taghmon in County Wexford , † February 25, 1860 in 47, Hertford Street Mayfair in London ) was a Colombian envoy extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire .

Life

John Devereux was the son of Mary Dixon and William Devereux, a distillery entrepreneur who supplied the Taghmon garrison . In early February 1776, William Devereux made the oath of oath of Allegiance before the justice of the peace Walter Hore. John Devereux had a prominent role in the Battle of New Ross (1798). After the rebellion was put down, John Devereux was searched for, the family of John Devereux was taken into kin liability , in which his father William Devereux died. John Devereux was treated after the uprising in Mercer's Hospital by Francis L'Estrange (1756-1836) in Dublin . In Cork , John Devereux was charged with high treason . John Devereux showed his devotion to Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis , who befriended him and showed an interest in his future.

From 1810 John Devereux worked as a US citizen in Baltimore for a trading company. During the British-American War he traded as a shipowner who ignored the blockade of the US ports imposed by the British in 1812 . The Adventure , an armed schooner , was brought in by two French privateers.

In 1815 he accompanied a load of arms to Cartagena when Simón Bolívar was in exile in Jamaica from May to December 1815 . Devereux made himself general and claimed in the British Parliament that he had friends whom he could call upon to support the rebellion against the Spanish colonial masters. In Buenos Aires he tried to get a loan of two million pesos for a military intervention in favor of Bolivars.

Simón Bolívar was accommodated in Port-au-Prince by Robert Sutherland († May 18, 1819 Port-au-Prince), arms supplier to Jean-Jacques Dessalines and shipping agent for John O'Brien. In July 1817, Robert Sutherland passed on John Devereux's offer to recruit an Irish legion with 5,000 mercenaries for 175 USD per mercenary for use in Venezuela , on to Simón Bolívar. Sutherland recommended accepting the offer and is considered the financier of this military intervention, for which Bolivar acted as the figurehead.

Devereux recruited about 500 mercenaries in 1818 and 1823 with the tolerance and indirect funding of the British government, about half of them in Ireland . The administration dealt in detail with the sale of command posts. The mercenaries waited for the landing to release the commands. Simón Bolivar appointed Devereux to his general staff free of charge in 1822.

From November 1822 to July 1823 Devereux was ambassador for the interests of Greater Colombia at the courts in Stockholm and Christiansborg .

In 1825 he was arrested in the Kingdom of Lombardy-Veneto and imprisoned in Venice.

He then returned to the United States, where he lived on a pension that the Venezuelan legislature granted him in 1840.

In the 1840s he was on business for José Manuel Restrepo Veléz in Bogotá and Caracas .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell, William Cobbett, Cobbett's complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors, Case 644
2. ^ The Trinity Letterbox, Taghmon in 1798
3. ^ Adventure, armed schooner, John Devereux, master. Drove off two French privateers in company according to Greg H Williams, The French Assault on American Shipping , 1793-1813: A History and marine losses, 2009, p. 47
4. ↑ Irish Legion
5. ↑ James Patrick Byrne, Philip Coleman, Jason Francis King, IRELAND AND THE AMERICAS , p. 195
6. ↑ Venezuela, Actos legislativos sancionados por el Congreso de Venezuela constitucional

predecessor	Office	successor
	Colombian envoy extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire in Stockholm November 1822 to July 1823	Jorge Mejia Palacio
	Colombian envoy extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire in Copenhagen November 1822 to July 1823	Jorge Mejia Palacio