Pedro de Alcántara Téllez-Girón y Alfonso-Pimentel, 2nd Prince of Anglona (1786–1851), was a Spanish military officer during the

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, Director of the

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between 1820 and 1823 and Captain General of

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(from January 1840 to March 1841). He was the 2nd Prince of Anglona in the peerage of Sardinia and the 9th Marquess of Jabalquinto in the peerage of Spain.

Biography

The second son of

Pedro Téllez-Girón, 9th Duke of Osuna Pedro de Alcántara Téllez-Girón, 9th Duke of Osuna, Grandee of Spain (in full, es, Don Pedro de Alcántara María Cayetano Ciriaco Rafael Domingo Vicente Téllez-Girón y Pacheco, noveno duque de Osuna, décimo marqués de Peñafiel, conde ...

, the prince fought under the

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, leading a Cavalry Division at the

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, the

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and later, under

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, at the

Battle of Barrosa The Battle of Barrosa (Chiclana, 5 March 1811, also known as the Battle of Chiclana or Battle of Cerro del Puerco) was part of an unsuccessful manoeuvre by an Anglo-Iberian force to break the French siege of Cádiz during the Peninsular War ...

. In 1811 he married María del Rosario Fernández de Santillán y Valdivia, daughter of the Marquis de Motilla. They had 6 children. On 30 October 1812, he was sent by the Cortes to arrest General

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, the commander of the 4th Army who, earlier that month, had called for a military uprising in protest against Wellington's appointment as ''

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'' of the Spanish Army. By April 1814, he was in command of Spain's 3rd Army as it crossed into France to occupy Pau.Chartrand, René (1999
''Spanish Army of the Napoleonic Wars (3): 1812-1815'', pp. 3–5. Osprey Publishing.
At Google Books. Retrieved 15 September 2013. After the War and the outbreak of the Liberal Triennium in 1820, he replaced his brother-in-law

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as Director of the Prado Museum until 1823, when he had to take refuge in Italy after the French invaded the country. From January 1840 to March 1841, he was Captain General of Cuba. Back in Spain, he was Director of the

Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (RABASF; ), located on the Calle de Alcalá in the heart of Madrid, currently functions as a museum and gallery. A public law corporation, it is integrated together with other Spanish royal acad ...

from 1849 until his death in 1851.

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