Martín Antonio Álvarez de Sotomayor y Soto-Flores, 1st Count of Colomera (1723 – 1819) was a
Spanish Army
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officer and nobleman. He fought in Italy during the
War of the Polish Succession
The War of the Polish Succession (; 1733–35) was a major European conflict sparked by a civil war in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth over the succession to Augustus II the Strong, which the other European powers widened in pursuit of ...
(1733–1735) and was
marechal de camp
Leopoldo Marechal (June 11, 1900 – June 26, 1970) was one of the most important Argentine writers of the twentieth century.
Biographical notes
Born in Buenos Aires into a family of French and Basque descent, Marechal became a primary schoo ...
during the 1762
war with Portugal. From 1788 to 1790 he was
viceroy of Navarre
This is a list of Spanish Viceroys of Navarre from 1512 to 1840, when the function was abolished.
*1512 : Diego Fernández de Córdoba y Arellano, marqués de Comares
*1515 : Fadrique de Acuña, Conde de Buendía
*1516 : Antonio Manrique de L ...
and during the
Anglo-Spanish War he led the
Great Siege of Gibraltar
The Great Siege of Gibraltar was an unsuccessful attempt by Enlightenment in Spain, Spain and Kingdom of France, France to capture Gibraltar from the Kingdom of Great Britain, British during the American Revolutionary War. It was the largest ba ...
until 1782, when he was relegated to command only its Spanish contingent. He was a minister and recipient of the
Order of Charles III
The Royal and Distinguished Spanish Order of Charles III, originally Royal and Much Distinguished Order of Charles III (, originally ; Abbreviation, Abbr.: OC3) is a knighthood and one of the three preeminent Order of merit, orders of merit bes ...
, but died without issue.
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Spanish generals
Viceroys of Navarre
1723 births
1819 deaths
18th-century Spanish military personnel
Spanish military personnel of the War of the Polish Succession
People from Lucena, Córdoba
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