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See also:ALEXANDRE See also:MARIE See also:AGUADO
, See also:marquis de See also:Las Marismas del See also:Guadalquivir, See also:viscount de See also:Monte Ricco (1784-1842), See also:Spanish banker, was See also:born of Jewish parentage at See also:Seville, on the 29th of See also:June 1784
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He began See also:life as a soldier, fighting with distinction in the Spanish See also:war of See also:independence on the See also:side of See also:Joseph See also:Bonaparte
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After the See also:battle of Baylen (1808) he entered the See also:French See also:army, in which he See also:rose to be See also:colonel and aide-de-See also:camp to See also:Marshal See also:Soult
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He was exiled in 1815, and immediately started business as a See also:commission-See also:agent in See also:Paris, where, chiefly through his See also:family connexions in See also:Havana and See also:Mexico, he acquired in a few years enough See also:wealth to enable him to undertake banking
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The Spanish See also:government gave him full See also:powers to negotiate the loans of 1823, 1828, 183o and 1831; and See also: |
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