• 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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    The Principality of Catalonia (Catalan: Principat de Catalunya; Occitan: Principat de Catalonha; Spanish: Principado de Cataluña; Latin: Principatus Cathaloniæ)...
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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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    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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    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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    1923 Spanish coup d'état (category Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera)
    coup d'état of Primo de Rivera took place in Spain between 13 and 15 September 1923 and was led by the then Captain General of Catalonia Miguel Primo...
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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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    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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    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 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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    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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  • 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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    Alfredo Kindelán (category Captains General of Catalonia)
    Nothing came of the scheme however. Kindelán enjoyed a return to favour of sorts in 1941 when he became Captain General of Catalonia, a promotion designed...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    the Partido Moderado. In 1848, he became Lieutenant General and as Captain General of Catalonia during the Second Carlist War, he put down the isolated...
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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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    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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    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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  • Count of Prades (5th), Count of Cardona, Viscount of Vilamur, Baron of Entença, Admiral of Aragon, Captain general of Catalonia as well as Viceroy of Sicily...
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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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  • 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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    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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    César del Villar (category Captains General of Catalonia)
    sessions of the Courts resumed on the day of the king's name day, dragging in his resignation the entire Cabinet. Villar was Captain General of Catalonia between...
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    nobleman who served as the Captain General of Catalonia from 1737 to 1738. A prominent military engineer in the Spanish army, Philip V of Spain granted him the...
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