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WEYLER Y NICOLAU, VALERIANO

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WEYLER Y NICOLAU, VALERIANO , See also:

Marquess of Tenerife (1839— ), See also:Spanish soldier, was See also:born at See also:Palma de See also:Majorca. His See also:family were originally Prussians, and served in the Spanish See also:army for several generations. He entered at sixteen the military See also:college of See also:infantry at See also:Toledo, and, when he attained the See also:rank of See also:lieutenant, passed into the See also:staff college, from which he came out as the See also:head of his class. Two years afterwards he became See also:captain, and was sent to See also:Cuba at his own See also:request. He distinguished himself in the expedition to Santo Domingo in many fights, and especially in a daring See also:reconnaissance with few men into the See also:heart of the enemy's lines, for which he got the See also:cross with laurels of See also:San Fernando. From 1868 to 1872 he served also brilliantly against the Cuban rebels, and commanded a See also:corps of See also:volunteers specially raised for him in See also:Havana. He returned to See also:Spain in 1893 as brigadier-See also:general, and took an active See also:part against the Carlists in the eastern provinces of the See also:Peninsula in 1875 and 1876, for which he was raised to the rank of general of See also:division. Then he was elected senator and given the See also:title of marquess of Tenerife. He held the See also:post of captain-general in the See also:Canary Isles from 1878 to 1883, and in the Balearic Isles afterwards. In 1888 he was sent out as captain-general to the Philippines, where he dealt very sternly with the native rebels of the Carolines, of Mindanao and other provinces. On his return to Spain in 1892 he was appointed to the command first of the 6th Army Corps in the Basque Provinces and See also:Navarre, where he soon quelled agitations, and then as captain-general at See also:Barcelona, where he remained until See also:January 1896. In See also:Catalonia, with a See also:state of See also:siege, he made himself the terror of the anarchists and socialists.

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Marshal See also:Campos had failed to pacify Cuba, the Conservative See also:government of See also:Canvas del See also:Castillo sent out Weyler, and this selection met the approval of most Spaniards, who thought him the proper See also:man to crush the See also:rebellion. Weyler attempted to do this by a policy of inexorable repression, which raised a See also:storm of indignation, and led to a demand from See also:America for his recall. This recall was granted by the Liberal government of See also:Sagasta, but Weyler afterwards asserted that, had he been See also:left alone, he would have stamped out the rebellion in six months. After his return to Spain his reputation as a strong and ambitious soldier made him one of those who in See also:case of any constitutional disturbance might be expected to See also:play an important role, and his See also:political position was nationally affected by this See also:consideration; his See also:appointment in 'goo as captain-general of See also:Madrid resulted indeed in more than one ministerial crisis. He was See also:minister of See also:war for a See also:short See also:time at the end of Igor, and again in 1905. At the end of See also:October 1909 he was appointed captain-general at Barcelona, where the disturbances connected with the See also:execution of Francisco Ferrer were quelled by him without bloodshed.

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