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See also: Spanish general and statesman, was See also: born at See also: Vittoria in 1770
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He served first in the See also: navy, and had risen to be captain of a See also: frigate when he exchanged into the army, receiving corresponding See also: rank
.
He was See also: present as a marine at the See also: battle of See also: Trafalgar on See also: board the See also: flagship of his See also: uncle See also: Admiral Alava
.
In politics he followed a very devious course
.
At the See also: assembly of See also: Bayonne in 18o8 he was one of the most prominent of those who accepted the new constitution from See also: Joseph See also: Bonaparte as See also: king of
See also: Spain
.
After the See also: national rising against French aggression, and the defeat of General See also: Dupont at Bailen in 18o8, Alava joined the national See also: independent party, who were fighting in See also: alliance with the See also: English
.
The Spanish See also: Cortes appointed him commissary at the English headquarters, and the duke of Wellington, who regarded him with See also: great favour, made him one of his aides-de-See also: camp
.
Before the close of the See also: campaign he had risen to the rank of brigadier-general
.
On the restoration of See also: Ferdinand, Alava was cast into prison, but the influence of his uncle Ethenard,-ALAVA
the inquisitor, and of Wellington secured his speedy
See also: release
.
He soon contrived to gain the favour of the king, who appointed him in 1815 ambassador to the Hague
.
It was therefore his remarkable See also: fortune to be present at the battle of See also: Waterloo with Wellington's staff
.
He is supposed to have been the only See also: man who was present at both Waterloo and Trafalgar
.
Four years later he was recalled owing, it is said, to the marked kindness he had shown to his banished See also: fellow-countrymen
.
On the breaking out of the revolution of 1820 he was chosen by the province of Alava to represent it in the Cortes, where he became conspicuous in the party of the Exaltados, and in 1822 was made president
.
In the latter See also: year he fought with the militia under Francisco Ballesteros and Pablo Murillo to maintain the authority of the Cortes against the rebels
.
When the French invested Cadiz, Alava was commissioned by the Cortes to treat with the duc d'Angouleme, and the negotiations resulted in the restoration of Ferdinand, who pledged himself to a liberal policy
.
No sooner had he regained power, however, than he ceased to hold himself bound by his promises, and Alava found it necessary to retire first to See also: Gibraltar and then to See also: England
.
On the See also: death of Ferdinand he returned to Spain, and espousing the cause of Maria Christina against See also: Don See also: Carlos was appointed ambassador to See also: London in 1834 and to See also: Paris in 1835
.
After the insurrection of La Granja he refused to sign the constitution of 1812, declaring himself tired of taking new oaths, and was consequently obliged to retire to See also: France, where he died at Bareges in 1843
.
Frequent and honourable mention of Alava is made in See also: Napier's See also: History of the See also: Peninsular War, and his name is often met both in lives of the duke of Wellington and in his See also: correspondence
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