Miguel Tacón y Rosique

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Miguel Tacón y Rossique (born January 10, 1775 in Cartagena , † October 12, 1855 in Madrid ) was a Castilian governor of Cuba .

Life

In 1805, Miguel Tacón was Brigadier of the Spanish Armada , Governor of the Spanish Kings, Capitán General de Andalucía, Governor of the Balearic Islands. In 1805 he was accepted into the Santiagoorden .

On April 6, 1806 he married Ana Polonia García de Lisón y Soycoli, a chambermaid of the Queen. Their children were Miguel and Maria del Carmen Tacón y García. From November 5, 1805, Miguel Tacón was governor of the Provincia de Popayán . On August 11, 1810, at the time of the Napoleonic occupation of Spain , he asked the Cabildo in Cali to recognize the Cortes of Cadiz and the government of the Junta Suprema Central . The Cabildo of Cadiz, on the other hand, showed its loyalty to Ferdinand VII of Spain . During uprisings in connection with the first independence from Ecuador his troops were on April 5, 1811 by troops of theCiudades Confederadas del Valle del Cauca beaten. He fled to the viceroyalty of Peru where he stayed until 1819. On November 21, 1834, his Prócer del Reino property was certified in Madrid .

He was appointed governor of Cuba, where he arrived on June 7, 1834. After the revolution in Haiti , between 1791 and 1803, nothing was bought for the world market from what was then the world's largest sugar producer . Some of the French sugar planters had emigrated to Cuba and sugar cane cultivation began in 1800 and after a short time sugar cane was grown on all high-yielding soils. Cuba experienced a boom in slave ownership . In 1834, Miguel Tacón Rossique had the journalist José Antonio Saco deported. In 1844 and from 1847 to 1848 he was Ambassador to the Court of St James’s . On September 17, 1847 he was ennobled Duque de la Unión de Cuba and accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece . In 1852 he was named Isabella II of Spain senator for life.

He was awarded the Order of Charles III. and the Order of St. Hermenegild .

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ http://www.senado.es/cgi-bin/BRSCGI?CMD=VERDOC&BASE=HISE&DOCN=000002986
  3. ↑ http://www.grandesp.org.uk/historia/gzas/unioncuba.htm
predecessor Office successor
Governor of the Provincia de Popayán
November 5, 1805-5. April 1811 		Joaquín de Caycedo y Cuero
Mariano Ricafort Palacín y Abarca Governor of Cuba
1834–1838 		Joaquín de Ezpeleta
Fernando Rodríguez Ribas Spanish ambassador to London in
1844 		Juan González de la Pezuela y Ceballos
Spanish ambassador to London
1847–1848 		Francisco Javier de Istúriz
personal data
SURNAME Tacón y Rosique, Miguel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tacón y Rossique, Miguel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish nobleman, Castilian governor on Cuba in La Paz (Rio de la Plata)
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Cartagena
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1855
Place of death Madrid