Tomás de Figueroa y Caravaca (c. 1747 – 1 April 1811) was a Spanish Army officer. He was active in the military outpost of Valdivia and later in Santiago as a royalist during the early phase of the Chilean struggle for independence. He was born in Estepona, near Málaga in southern Spain. A soldier by profession, he had to migrate Chile in 1775 after having killed a man in a duel in Spain. In late 1792 he led Spanish forces that suppressed a Huilliche uprising around Río Bueno and Futahuillimapu in southern Chile.[1] After leading a mutiny to restore colonial order in Santiago on 1 April 1811, he was summarily executed on the orders of pro-independence leader Juan Martínez de Rozas.
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| Born | 1747 Estepona, Spain |
| Died | 1 April 1811 (aged 63–64) Santiago, Captaincy General of Chile |
| Allegiance | Spain |
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References
edit- ^ Barros Arana, Diego (2000) [1886]. "Capítulo XVII". Historia General de Chile (in Spanish). Vol. VII (2 ed.). Santiago, Chile: Editorial Universitaria. pp. 66–69. ISBN 956-11-1535-2.
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