• 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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    1923 Spanish coup d'état (category Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera)
    coup d'état of Primo de Rivera took place in Spain between September 13 and 15, 1923 and was led by the then Captain General of Catalonia Miguel Primo...
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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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    captain-general in April 1879, and was involved in the Little War. He returned to Spain in November 1881 and served as Captain General of Catalonia and...
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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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    Joaquín Milans del Bosch (category Captains General of Catalonia)
    to the rank of lieutenant general. On 30 September 1918, Milans del Bosch was named Captain General of Catalonia. The situation in Catalonia was tense due...
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    Felipe Alfau Mendoza (category Captains General of Catalonia)
    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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    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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    field marshal in 1794. He then transferred to the Army of Catalonia, serving first under the orders of Luis Firmín de Carvajal, Conde de la Unión and, following...
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  • Juan Miguel de Vives (category Captains General of Catalonia)
    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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  • 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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    Autonomous Region of Catalonia (Catalan: Regió autònoma de Catalunya, Spanish: Región autónoma de Cataluña) was established after the grant of self-government...
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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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    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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    Francisco Copons y Navia (category Captains General of Catalonia)
    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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    José Moscardó Ituarte (category Captains General of Catalonia)
    promoted to Army General after the relief of the Alcázar, and put in command of the Soria Division. In 1938 he was given command of the Aragon Army Corps...
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    The recorded history of the lands of what today is known as Catalonia begins with the development of the Iberian peoples while several Greek colonies...
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    José María Santocildes (category Captains General of Catalonia)
    He was captain general of Valencia from November 1832 to August 1833 and in November 1834 he was appointed interim captain general of Catalonia. (in Spanish)...
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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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    José López Domínguez (category Captains General of Catalonia)
    under the new Serrano government, he became captain general of Catalonia. In 1883, he was minister of war in the Posada Herrera government and, between...
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    Arsenio Martínez Campos (category Captains General of Catalonia)
    Captain General of Catalonia after defeating the Carlists there, ending the civil war, and in Navarre in the Restoration. He was made captain general...
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    the death of King Ferdinand VII at the end of 1833, and which took place during the summer of 1835 in Aragon and, above all, in Catalonia, within the...
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    formation of major nationalist movements and unions in Catalonia, Galicia, and the Basque Country. Alfonso XII died in November 1885 from a recurrence of dysentery...
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    Joaquín Ibáñez, 3rd Baron de Eroles (category Captains General of Catalonia)
    incident led to the Captain General of Catalonia, General Reding, promoting him to lieutenant colonel and giving him the command of the tercio. That same...
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    José Olaguer Feliú (category Captains General of Catalonia)
    of the Captaincy General of Catalonia until 1922, where he was replaced by Lieutenant General Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella In March...
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    Joaquín Ezpeleta Enrile (category Presidents of the Senate of Spain)
    member of the Cortes Generales, Minister of the Crown and Civil Governor of Jaen, Captain-General of Cuba, Captain-General of Catalonia or Viceroy of Navarre...
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    Spinola, II Marquis of la Mina (1690–1767) was a Spanish Army commander and Captain General of Catalonia. He was also the fifth Count of Pezuela de las Torres...
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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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    Luis de Lacy (category Captains General of Catalonia)
    Sweden and Russia. He was created a Knight of the order of Carlos Tecera and appointed Capitán-General of Catalonia in 1789. An aunt married George Browne...
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