Enrique José O'Donnell
Enrique José O'Donnell y Anethen, Conde de La Bisbal (* 1769 in Spain , † May 17, 1834 in Montpellier ) was a Spanish general .
Life
O'Donnell came from a noble Irish family who went into exile after the fateful Battle of the Boyne in 1689 for the Irish Catholic . His father was Joseph O'Donnell (1722–1787), Colonel in the Spanish Regiment Irlanda and most recently Lieutenant General in the Spanish Army , his mother was Mariana de Anethan.
Enrique José joined the Spanish Guard at a young age and took part in the Spanish war against the French in 1795. In the Spanish war of insurrection against Napoleon Bonaparte in 1810, he rose to general and received the supreme command in Catalonia . By a victory at La Bisbal on September 14, 1810 he acquired the title of Count of La Bisbal, but was then defeated several times, so on April 23 at Levido and on February 20, 1811 at Vic . In a dispute with the Cortes , he was imprisoned in early 1814.
After Ferdinand VII's reinstatement, appointed captain general of Andalusia , in 1815 he commanded the observation army on the French border and in 1818 became governor of Cádiz . When the French broke in in 1823, he gained some advantages with a corps sent to support General O'Daly and then took command of the first reserve army, which was intended to cover Madrid. In this position he behaved so ambiguously that his own troops forced him to abdicate, whereupon he fled to France, where the French government assigned him Limoges as his place of residence. His brother Enrico Carlos O'Donnell, born in 1780, died in Madrid in 1830 as captain general in Old Castile .
When Maria Christina came to government in 1833, O'Donnell wanted to return to Spain, but died en route in Montpellier on May 17, 1834.
From his marriage to Josefa Jorris y Casaviella came the future general Leopoldo O'Donnell , who was awarded the title of Duke of Tetuán in 1860.
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| SURNAME | O'Donnell, Enrique José |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | O'Donnell, Joseph Heinrich (Meyers) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count of Abispal, Spanish general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1769 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Spain |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 17, 1834 |
| Place of death | Montpellier |