Comandante General Gregorio Aráoz de Lamadrid (or "de La Madrid"; 28 November 1795 in San Miguel de Tucumán – 5 January 1857 in Buenos Aires) was an

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military officer and briefly, governor of several provinces like Córdoba, Mendoza and his native province of Tucumán. Lamadrid fought beside General Belgrano and

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during the Argentine War of Independence, as a prominent cavalry officer of the Army of the North, where he won a number of famous small actions in Upper Peru such as Tambo Nuevo in 1813 and

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in 1816. As a general commanding Unitarian forces in the civil wars which followed, Lamadrid fought alongside General José María Paz in the battles of La Tablada, San Roque, and

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. Like many other nineteenth century Argentines prominent in public life, Lamadrid was a

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, Manuel Belgrano,

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, Juan José Castelli,

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, Gregorio Aráoz de Lamadrid, Francisco Narciso de Laprida ,

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, Juan Lavalle,

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, Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and Justo José de Urquiza. José de San Martín is known to have been a member of the

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; but whether the lodge was truly masonic has been debated: Lamadrid's body is buried in the Cathedral of San Miguel de Tucumán. The football club Club Atlético General Lamadrid of the Metropolitan 4th Division are named in his honour.

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1795 births 1857 deaths Argentine generals People of the Argentine War of Independence People from San Miguel de Tucumán Governors of Mendoza Province Governors of Córdoba Province, Argentina Argentine Freemasons {{Argentina-mil-bio-stub