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TOPETE, JUAN BAUPTISTA (1821-1885)

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TOPETE, JUAN BAUPTISTA (1821-1885) , See also:Spanish See also:naval See also:commander and politician, was See also:born in See also:Mexico on the 24th of May 1821. His See also:father and grandfather were also Spanish admirals. He entered the See also:navy at the See also:age of seventeen, cut out a Carlist See also:vessel in 1839, became a See also:midshipman at twenty-two, obtained the See also:cross of naval merit for saving the See also:life of a sailor iv 1841 and became a See also:lieutenant in 1845. He served on the See also:West See also:Indian station for three years, and was engaged in repressing the slave See also:trade before he was promoted See also:frigate See also:captain in 1857. He was See also:chief of See also:staff to the See also:fleet during the See also:Morocco See also:War, 1859, after which he got the crosses of See also:San Fernando and San Hermenegilde. Having been appointed chief of the See also:Carrara See also:arsenal at See also:Cadiz, he was elected See also:deputy and joined the See also:Union Liberal of O'Donnell and Serrano. He was sent out to the Pacific in command of the frigate " Blanca," and was See also:present at the See also:bombardment of See also:Valparaiso and See also:Callao, where he was badly wounded, and in other engagements of the war between See also:Chile and See also:Peru. On his return to See also:Spain, Topete was made See also:port captain at Cadiz, which enabled him to take the See also:lead of the See also:conspiracy in the fleet against the See also:Bourbon See also:monarchy. He sent the steamer " See also:Buenaventura " to the See also:Canary Isle for Serrano and the other exiles; and when See also:Prim and See also:Sagasta arrived from See also:Gibraltar, the whole fleet under the See also:influence of Topete took such an attitude that the See also:people, See also:garrison and authorities of Cadiz followed suit. Topete took See also:part in all the acts of the revolutionary See also:government, accepted the See also:post of marine See also:minister, was elected a member of the See also:Cortes of 1869, supported the pretensions of See also:Montpensier, opposed the See also:election of Amadeus, sat in several cabinets of that See also:king's reign, was prosecuted by the federal See also:republic of 1873 and again took See also:charge of the marine under Serrano in 1874. After the Restoration Topete for some years held aloof, but finally accepted the See also:presidency of a naval See also:board in 1877, and sat in the See also:Senate as a life peer until his See also:death on the 29th of See also:October 1885 at See also:Madrid.

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