Pascual Liñán

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Pascual Liñán

Pascual Sebastián de Liñán y Dolz de Espejo (born July 19, 1775 in Teruel , Aragón , Spain , † January 1, 1855 in Madrid Spain) was a Spanish officer who fought in the Mexican War of Independence , among other things .

Life

Liñán came from one of the leading families in Aragon. His parents were Gonzalo de Liñán y Fernández de Moros and Paola Dolz de Espejo y Pérez de Pomar. At the age of eight, he joined the Spanish army in 1783 as a cadet of the royal guard.

In the First Coalition War against revolutionary France, he fought for the Spaniards in Roussillon . In 1809 he was promoted to captain, in 1811 he was brigadier general.

In the war of liberation against Napoleon, he distinguished himself on the Spanish side. After King Ferdinand VII returned , he was transferred to New Spain .

He left Cádiz on board the frigate Sabina in late 1816 and arrived in Veracruz in early April 1817 . With him he brought reinforcements for the royalist troops in the Mexican War of Independence , a total of 5,000 men.

First he conquered the province of Guanajuato for the Spaniards . In November 1817, Liñán's troops captured the leader of the rebels, Francisco Javier Mina , who, with about 300 volunteers from Spain , fought for the independence of Mexico with the Mexican rebels under Pedro Moreno .

In 1818 Liñán moved to Veracruz as governor. There he stopped smuggling and built new settlements. In early 1821 he married María Josefa Fernández-Rubio y Monet in Veracruz, with whom he had seven children.

When the Spanish Colonel Agustín de Iturbide defected to the rebels with most of the Spanish troops in February 1821, Liñán received the military command of the remaining royalist forces from Viceroy Juan Ruiz de Apodaca . The war of independence could no longer be won, the Spaniards held only individual cities in their power besides the capital Mexico City . In August 1821, the last de facto viceroy, Juan O'Donojú , sent by the Spanish government recognized the independence of Mexico in the Treaty of Cordoba ; the royalist troops should be allowed to withdraw.

Liñán did not return to Spain until 1825. He was appointed General Commander and Deputy Provincial Governor of South Castile ( Castilla la Nueva ) and in 1826 promoted to Lieutenant General. From 1829 he acted as captain general of Madrid; in this capacity he maintained a close relationship with the king's brother, Carlos María Isidro de Borbón .

After Ferdinand's death, Carlos laid claim to the throne; Liñán was loyal to Ferdinand's succession to the throne in favor of his underage daughter Isabella . Pascual Liñán was appointed Chamberlain of the Queen and Senator and was awarded numerous medals. He died in Madrid in 1855.

literature

  • Mariano Sánchez-Muñoz y Chlusowiez:  Apuntes críticos y biográficos acerca de los hombres célebres de la provincia de Teruel. Imprenta de la Casa de Beneficencia, Teruel 1881. 
  • Pedro Chamorro y Baquerizo:  Estado Mayor General del Ejército Español; Historia individual de su cuadro en los años 1851 a 1856 . Sección de Tenientes Generales, Madrid, 1862. 
  • Conde de Doña-Marina: "La Casa de Liñán"; Linajes de Aragón, t. III, p. 262.

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personal data
SURNAME Liñán, Pascual
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liñán y Dolz de Espejo, Pascual Sebastián de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish officer
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Teruel , Spain
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1855
Place of death Madrid , Spain