Ramón Herrera y Rodado (1799–1882) was a Chilean soldier who held important public positions in Peru during the government of José de la Riva Agüero and later during the Peru–Bolivian Confederation, being president of the

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and one of the trusted men of the protector

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He was the son of the couple Francisco Manuel de Herrera and Francisca de Paula Rodado, both natives of Peninsular Spain. His family had moved to

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when his father began a bureaucratic career as a Crime Prosecutor of the

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in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata in 1787, later holding the same position in the Captaincy General of Chile where in 1799 his son Ramón was born. Following in the footsteps of his older brother Francisco de Paula Pedro Regalado, generally known as Pedro Herrera, he enlisted in the royalist army, later moving to Peru where he was part of the Concordia regiment stationed in Lima; His brother Pedro had died in 1816 in Chuquisaca, in the during the campaign of Viceroy

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in Upper Peru against the Army of the North. In 1820 he served as captain of the

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; Together with the Venezuelan captain he led the arrest of Colonel Ruperto Delgado and then handed this body over to the patriot side on the Huaura bridge, then becoming part of the

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under the command of José de San Martín where he quickly rose to the rank of colonel. This event, one of the most decisive of the Liberating Expedition, allowed San Martín to increase his force with a veteran battalion and weakened the royalists to the same extent, who finally abandoned Lima. At the time Numancia went over to the patriots, it had 996 seats, of which 671 were Venezuelans and 325 Peruvians. Decorated three times by San Martín and another three times by President

; He was also Minister of War and Navy of Peru during the government of José de la Riva Agüero;

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and Plenipotentiary Minister of

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; President of the Government Council of

and its Minister of War; finally elevated to President of the same country. As President of South Peru, he was one of the negotiators of the

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in 1837, which established peace between the Peru–Bolivian Confederation and the

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, which was subsequently not recognized by the Chilean government; Once hostilities restarted, he fought in the Battle of Yungay where he commanded the Bolivian division of the

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. Once the war ended and Peru and Bolivia were plunged into anarchy, he went into self-exile, going to Argentina and Chile and then heading to Europe where he would live until the end of his days. During his stay in Peru he was married three times and had seven children. Away from public life, he would die in Florence, Italy when his native country and the other two he had served faithfully were still fighting in the War of the Pacific.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Herrera y Rodado, Ramon 1799 births 1882 deaths Chilean military personnel Peruvian military personnel Viceroyalty of Peru people People of the Peruvian War of Independence Military personnel of the War of the Confederation

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