Leonardo Marquez
Leonardo Marquez Araujo (born January 8, 1820 Mexico City , † July 5, 1913 in Havana ) was a Mexican general and ambassador .
Life
His parents were Maria de la Luz Araujo from Mexico City and the captain Cayetano Márquez from Santiago de Querétaro . Leonardo Marquez Araujo became a cadet on January 15, 1830 in Lampazos de Naranjo , where his father was also stationed. He was married to Luz Araujo de Márquez.
In the Mexican-American War he took part in the Battle of Buena Vista .
In Tacubaya , the conservative Félix María Zuloaga published the Plan de Tacubaya on December 17, 1857 , a conservative alternative to the liberal federal constitution of the United States of Mexico of 1857 by Benito Juárez . He triggered the Guerra de Reforma (Reform War). Leonardo Marquez Araujo took part as a general on the side of the conservative party of Antonio López de Santa Anna and Félix María Zuloaga .
Under the orders of Leonardo Márquez Araujo, Tacubaya was taken in 1859 and prisoners and medical students who had provided medical care to Liberals were massacred. Among the liberal victims were the politician Melchor Ocampo and the general Leandro Valle Martínez. Miguel Miramón , on whom Leonardo Marquez Araujo appealed regarding his orders for the capture of Tacubaya, promoted him on April 11, 1859 to the division general . He was nicknamed Tigre de Tacubaya . In 1859 he was governor of Jalisco .
On January 1, 1861, Leonardo Márquez Araujo and the Conservative Party were defeated by the Liberals under the command of José Santos Degollado .
On January 18, in 1861 he wrote Tlalpam a letter to Ignacio Aguilar y Morocho (1813-1884), a former minister under Antonio López de Santa Anna , and said that the time had come to political, social and military response to organize . At the same time, Leonardo Marquez offered Araujo Ignacio Aguilar y Morocho to chair a board of directors and the right to elect ministers. Ignacio Aguilar y Morocho is considered a key figure in the Conservative Party's commitment to the second French intervention in Mexico , through which Maximilian I was elevated to Emperor of Mexico .
In 1864 the emperor sent him as a special ambassador to Sultan Abdülaziz . When the French troops withdrew from Mexico, Emperor Maximilian I appointed him in October 1866 as the commander of a division, for which he was to raise the troops first. In 1867 Maximilian appointed him chief of staff . and in March 1867 to its governor. His troops were defeated on April 2, 1867 by liberal forces under Porfirio Díaz . Leonardo Marquez Araujo left for Havana .
Leonardo Márquez Araujo was expressly excluded from an amnesty for conservatives in 1870.
In 1895, Manuel Romero Rubio reached that Porfirio Díaz pardoned him, after which he temporarily returned to Mexico. He is buried in the "La Necrópolis Cristóbal Colón" in Havana.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brockhaus, Our Time: Yearbook for Konversations-Lexikon , 1864, p. 363.
- ↑ Émile Kératry, Emperor Maximilian's Uprising and Fall
- ↑ Ed Wilhelm of Mont Long, Authentic revelations about the recent events in Mexico
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Pablo Martínez del Río |
Special envoy to the Sultan Abdülaziz May 24, 1865 to 1865 |
Genaro Estrada Félix |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marquez, Leonardo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Márquez Araujo, Leonardo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican ambassador |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico city |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 5, 1913 |
| Place of death | Havana |