Pascual Ruiz Huidobro

Pascual Ruiz Huidobro (born April 1, 1752 in Ourense , Galicia , Spain , † March 1813 in Mendoza , Argentina ) was a Spanish military and politician .

Ruiz Huidobro came to the Río de la Plata in 1777 as part of the expedition of the viceroy Pedro de Ceballos . From 1804 to February 3, 1807 he was governor of Montevideo in what is now South American Uruguay . He fought against the British invasions on the Río de la Plata . In this context he fell into British captivity after the defeat in the "Battle of Cardel" ( Combate del Cardel ) on January 20, 1807, when the city was occupied by British troops led by Samuel Auchmuty on February 3, 1807. After the deposition of the reigning viceroy Sobremonte, who had fled at the time, Ruiz Huidobro, who was still in British captivity, was appointed viceroy of the Rio de la Plata on the basis of a royal order dated February 24, 1806 . However, since this order did not arrive in Buenos Aires until June 29 of the same year , the Frenchman Santiago de Liniers , who was in Spanish service, took up the post of viceroy as the senior officer on an interim basis shortly before another attack by British invasion troops .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Data on www.worldstatesmen.org
2. ↑ Cronología de la República de Uruguay (desde 1516 a 1828) (Spanish), accessed on February 23, 2012
3. ↑ Dissertation by Herbert Kleinlercher: Monarchy projects and monarchies in the New World: La Plata, Mexico and Brazil, 1808 - 1889 (PDF; 1.9 MB)

predecessor	Office	successor
José de Bustamante y Guerra	Governor of Montevideo 1804 - February 3, 1807	Francisco Javier de Elío