Manuel Montes de Oca (politician, 1804)

Manuel Montes de Oca (* 1804 in Medina-Sidonia , † October 20, 1841 in Vitoria ) was a Spanish military and politician .

Montes entered the Academia de Guardias Marinas at the age of seventeen and made his first sea voyage with the frigate Sabina the following year . For his work in supporting the fortress of San Juan de Ulúa in 1823, he was awarded the Cruz de la marina . As an officer of the corvette Zafiro , he took part in the provision of troops and the fight against pirates off Cuba and Yucatán . He later served on escort ships of the merchant navy and became adjutant to the General-Captain of Cadiz, José de Quevedo and later of Cayetano Valdés , who made him procurator of the Assembly of Estates General of Cádiz in 1834 .

He became secretary of the Estamento de Procuradores and section head in the Ministry of the Navy. From 1837 he was a Member of Parliament for Cadiz, and in 1839 he was appointed Minister for Navy, Trade and Overseas Territory Administration. In 1840 he took part in the fight against the rebels who intended to raid Congress.

He then resigned and led the Partida Moderata conspiracy in the Basque Country against his former friend and patron, the general and regent Baldomero Espartero , and for the reinstatement of Queen María Cristina in the 1841 Revolution . After the defeat of Generals Diego de León , Manuel Gutiérrez de la Concha and Leopoldo O'Donnell , he first tried to escape, but then surrendered to General Martín Zurbano . He was sentenced to death as a rebel and executed on October 20th .

Since his youth, Montes was interested in literature with the writers Félix José Reinoso and Alberto Lista . He wrote poems and translated several Eclogues of Virgil .

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SURNAME	Montes de Oca, Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish military and minister
DATE OF BIRTH	1804
PLACE OF BIRTH	Medina-Sidonia
DATE OF DEATH	October 20, 1841
Place of death	Vitoria