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ARSENIO MARTINEZ DE See also:CAMPOS (1831-1900)
, See also:Spanish See also:marshal, senator and See also:knight of the See also:Golden Fleece, was See also:born at See also:Segovia on the 14th of See also:December 1831
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He graduated as a See also:lieutenant in 1852, and for some years was attached to the See also:staff See also:college as an assistant See also:professor
.
He took See also:part in the See also:Morocco See also:campaign of 1859-186o, and distinguished himself in sixteen actions, obtaining the See also:cross of See also:San Fernando, and the See also:rank of lieutenant-See also:colonel
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He then returned to the staff college as a professor
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Afterwards he joined the expedition to See also:Mexico under See also:Prim
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In 1869 he was sent to See also:Cuba, where he was promoted to the rank of See also:general in 1872
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On his return to the See also:Peninsula, the Federal Republican See also:government in 1873 confided to General See also:Campos several high commands, in which he again distinguished himself against the Cantonal Republicans and the Carlists
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About that See also:time he began to conspire with a view to restore the son of See also:Queen See also:Isabella
.
Though Campos made no See also:secret of his designs, Marshal Serrano,in 1874, appointed him to the command of a See also:division which took part in the See also:relief of See also:Bilbao on the 2nd of May of that See also:year, and in the operations around See also:Estella in See also:June
.
On both occasions General Campos tried in vain to induce the other commanders to proclaim See also:Alphonso XII
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He then affected to hold aloof, and would have been arrested, had not the See also:minister of See also:war, Ceballos, answered for his See also:good behaviour, and quartered him in See also:Avila under surveillance
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He managed to See also:escape, and after hiding in See also:Madrid, joined General Daban at Sagunto on the 29th of December 1874, where he proclaimed Alphonso XII. See also:
From that date he never ceased to exercise See also:great See also:influence in the politics of the restoration
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He was considered as a sort of supreme counsellor, being consulted by King Alphonso, and later by his widow, the queen-See also:regent, in every important
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See also:political crisis, and on every See also:international or colonial question, especially when other generals or the See also:army itself became trouble-some
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He took an important part in the military operations against the Carlists, and in the negotiations with their leaders, which put an end to the See also:civil war in 1876
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In the same way he brought about the pacification of Cuba in 1878
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On his return from that See also:island he presided over a Conservative See also:cabinet for a few months, but soon made way for Canovas, whom he ever afterwards treated as the See also:leader of the Conservative party
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In 1881, with other discontented generals, he assisted See also:Sagasta in obtaining See also:office
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After the See also:death of King Alphonso, Campos steadily supported the regency of Queen See also:Christina, and held high commands, though declining to take office
.
In 1893 he was selected to command the Spanish army at See also:Melilla, and went to the See also:court of Morocco to make an advantageous treaty of See also:peace, which averted a war
.
When the Cuban rising in 1895 assumed a serious aspect, he was sent out by the Conservative cabinet of Canovas to See also:cope with the See also:rebellion, but he failed in the See also: This took See also:place in the summer See also:recess of 1900 at Zarauz, a See also:village on the See also:coast of See also:Guipuzcoa, where he was buried . |
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