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1ST See also: Spanish marshal, was See also: born at See also: Granada on the 6th of See also: July 1814
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He was the son of Colonel See also: Pavia, and after a few years at the Jesuit school of See also: Valencia he entered the Royal Artillery See also: Academy at See also: Segovia
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In 1833 he became a See also: lieutenant in the See also: guards of See also: Queen Isabella II., and during the Carlist War from 1833 to 1840 he became general of division in the latter See also: year at the early age of twenty-six
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The Moderate party made him war See also: minister in 1847, and sent him to See also: Catalonia, where his efforts to put down a Carlist rising were not attended with success
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He had been made a senator in 1845, and See also: marquis in 1848
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He was sent out to See also: Manila in 1852 as captain-general of the Philippine Islands
.
In See also: April 1854 he crushed with much sternness a formidable insurrection and carried out many useful reforms
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On his return to See also: Spain he married the countess of See also: Santa See also: Isabel, and commanded the reserves in the Peninsula during the war with See also: Morocco
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He refused the war portfolio twice offered him by Marshals O'Donnell and Narvaez and undertook to See also: form a See also: cabinet of Moderates in 1864 that lived but a few days
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He volunteered to crush the insurrection in See also: Madrid on the 22nd of See also: June 1866, and when the revolution broke out in See also: September 1868 accepted the command of Queen Isabella's troops
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He was defeated by Marshal Serrano at the See also: bridge of Alcolea on the 28th of September 1868, and was so badly wounded in the face that he was disfigured for See also: life He kept apart during the revolution and went to meet See also: King Alfonso when he landed at Valencia in
See also: January 1875
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The Restoration made the marquis de Novaliches a senator, and the new king gave him the See also: Golden Fleece
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He died in Madrid on the 22nd of See also: October 1896
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