Juan Van Halen
Don Juan Halen Count of Peracampos (born February 16, 1790 on the San Fernando peninsula , † November 8, 1864 in Cádiz ) was a Spanish general .
Van Halen came from an originally Belgian family, entered the naval service and then became a naval officer. After he was appointed to the Admiralty in Madrid , he took part in the battle against the French Navy on May 2, 1808. He was captured at the Battle of Ferrol , converted to the French and, in 1809, became an orderly officer of King Joseph Bonaparte . In 1813 he went to Barcelona on the staff of General Louis Gabriel Suchet , where he came into contact with the patriotic secret societies and, through treason, played the fortresses of Lleida , Monzón and Mequinenza into the hands of the Spanish. In 1817 he was again involved in the conspiracy of General José María de Torrijos y Uriarte and was finally arrested. He was put in the dungeons of the Inquisition , but fled to Russia . There he became a major in the Russian army in a dragoon regiment in 1818 and took part in the Caucasus War in 1820 .
When the revolution broke out , Van Halen returned to Spain and fought for the constitution. After the rebellion was suppressed, he went to Havana and later to Brussels . When the Belgian Revolution broke out on September 24, 1830, he took over the supreme command of the Belgian insurgents, expelled the Dutch from Brussels, but resigned his command due to disputes with Louis Joseph Antoine de Potter and went to South Brabant as military governor . He received his farewell soon after with promotion to lieutenant general .
Van Halen returned to Madrid in 1834, became adjutant to General Córdova in 1836 and successfully fought against the Carlist in Navarre .
Don Juan Van Halen died on November 8, 1864 in Cádiz.
Works
- Les quatres journées de Bruxelles , Brussels 1831
literature
- Halen . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 7 . Altenburg 1859, p. 869-870 ( zeno.org ).
- Halen, Don Juan van . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 8, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, pp. 14–14.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Van Halen, Juan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Halen Count of Peracampos, Don Juan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1790 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | on the San Fernando peninsula |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 1864 |
| Place of death | Cadiz |