Juan Manuel Cajigal y Niño () (sometimes, Juan Manuel Cagigal y Niño in the orthography of the period) was a Spanish

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, born in

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, in 1754.

Biography

With more than two decades of service, Cajigal arrived in

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in 1799 where he served in the Veteran Battalion of Caracas. From 1804 to 1809 he served as governor of

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(capital, Cumaná) in eastern Venezuela. Promoted to Field Marshal, he was named captain general of Venezuela in 1814. He oversaw the royalist advances carried out by José Tomás Boves, who acted in an independent manner. Cajigal resigned upon the arrival of Pablo Morillo in 1815 and left for Spain the following year. In 1819 he was appointed captain general of Cuba and oversaw the restoration of the

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in 1820. That same year he resigned due to health problems and retired to

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, where he died in 1823. His cousin, General Juan Manuel Cagigal y Monserrat, was

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's friend and commanding officer at the Battle of Pensacola during the

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. His cousin-once-removed, whom he raised, was Venezuelan mathematician Juan Manuel Cajigal y Odoardo.

References

*Bencomo Barrios, Héctor. "Juan Manuel Cajigal y Niño," ''Diccionario de Historia de Venezuela''. Caracas: Fundacíon Polar, 1997. *Parra Pérez, Caracciolo. ''Historia de la Primera República de Venezuela''. Madrid: Ediciones Guadarrama, 1959. *Stoan, Stephen K. ''Pablo Morillo and Venezuela, 1815–1820''. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959. Spanish generals Cajigal, Juan Miguel Governors of Cuba People of the Venezuelan War of Independence Independence of Venezuela 1823 deaths Year of birth missing People from Cádiz {{Venezuela-mil-bio-stub

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