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The office of Captain General of Catalonia (Spanish: Capitán general de Cataluña; Catalan: Capità general de Catalunya) was created in 1713 by the Nueva Planta decrees of King Philip V of Spain to replace that of Viceroy of Catalonia.

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Captain General of Catalonia

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The office of Captain General of Catalonia (Spanish: Capitán general de Cataluña; Catalan: Capità general de Catalunya) was created in 1713 by the Nueva...

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Principality of Catalonia

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The Principality of Catalonia (Catalan: Principat de Catalunya; Occitan: Principat de Catalonha; Spanish: Principado de Cataluña; Latin: Principatus Cathaloniæ)...

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Fall of the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera

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explicit in his reply was the captain general of Catalonia, General Emilio Barrera, a close collaborator and personal friend of Primo de Rivera, who openly...

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Second Carlist War

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while Fernando de Córdova, captain-general of Catalonia, put down the isolated rebel cells in that region by early 1849. In June of that year, amnesty was...

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Francisco Copons y Navia

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and the Peninsular War. He was appointed captain general of Catalonia in 1812 and promoted to lieutenant general in 1814. After graduating from the Military...

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Felipe Alfau Mendoza

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served as the first Spanish High Commissioner in Morocco and as Captain-General of Catalonia. Born in Santo Domingo, son to the Dominican trinitario Felipe...

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Reign of Alfonso XIII

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city of Barcelona, and the first major attack took place on 24 September 1893, in which General Arsenio Martínez Campos, Captain General of Catalonia, was...

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History of Catalonia

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lands of what today is known as Catalonia, in Spain, were first settled during the Middle Palaeolithic era. Like the rest of the Mediterranean side of the...

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List of viceroys of Catalonia

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Planta decrees, King Philip V of Spain replaced the function Viceroy of Catalonia, with that of Captain General of Catalonia. During the Reapers' War or...

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Reign of Alfonso XII

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the Count of Valmaseda, both linked to the Moderate Party. He named the former captain general of Catalonia and the latter captain general of Cuba, thus...

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Juan Miguel de Vives

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the captain general of Catalonia gave him the command of 20,000 migueletes which, together with volunteers raised in Valencia by the Marquis of La Romana...

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Marquis of Verboom

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planning the War of the Quadruple Alliance – to recover Sardinia and Sicily. He took on the role of acting Captain General of Catalonia between 1737 and...

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Pio di Savoia

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the title of Grandee was conferred upon his son Francisco Pío de Saboya y Moura, erstwhile Governor of Madrid and Captain General of Catalonia. The Príncipe...

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Citadel of Barcelona

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its inhabitants homeless. In 1718, the captain general of Catalonia, Francisco Pío de Saboya y Moura, Marquis of Castel-Rodrigo, commissioned Verboom to...

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Francesco Pio di Savoia

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governmental positions including Governor-General of the Kingdom of Sicily, Governor of Madrid and Captain-General of Catalonia. He married some time before 1712...

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Miguel Primo de Rivera

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family of Jerez de la Frontera. His father was a retired colonel. His uncle, Fernando, was Captain General in Madrid and the soon-to-be first Marquis of Estella...

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