Juan Almonte
Don Juan Nepomuceno Almonte (* 1804 in the province of Valladolid, Mexico , † March 22, 1869 in Paris , France ) was a Mexican general and statesman.
Life
Allegedly the son of the priest Morelos , who played an important role in the war of independence , he took part in this struggle as a child. After doing business in Washington for some time, he went to London in 1824 as an attaché to the Mexican legation and on his return became a member of Congress. In 1832 he became chargé d'affaires in London and then in Peru. Later, rejoining the army , he became an aide to President Santa Anna .
After serving as Minister of War under Anastasio Bustamante , he was sent by Santa Anna as envoy to Washington in September 1841. When Mariano Paredes took the lead in Mexico at the end of 1845, Almonte was again minister of war and again went to Washington as envoy in 1853 and to Paris in late 1857.
In Paris, after the overthrow of the then President Comonfort , he worked for the clerical pretender Miramón and thus entered into opposition to Juarez . After Juarez came to power in 1861 and deposed him, Almonte, obsessed with party hatred and ambition, ran the French expedition against Mexico.
With the French occupation troops he arrived in Veracruz in early 1862 . But since the Mexicans saw in him only the tool of the French plans, the attempts, supported by the French troops, to make him dictator failed, and Forey dropped Almonte in the autumn of 1862.
When Almonte came to the capital Mexico with the French on June 10, 1863 , he was placed at the head of the “Regency of the Mexican Empire” established by the victors. The empire of Maximilian then brought Almonte the rank of field marshal . After Maximilian's death, Almonte fled to Europe and died in exile in Paris on March 22, 1869.
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| SURNAME | Almonte, Juan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Almonte, Juan Nepomuceno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican general and statesman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Valladolid, Mexico |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1869 |
| Place of death | Paris |