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QUESADA Y MATHEUS, JENARO DE (1818-1889), 1ST MARQUIS OF MIRAVALLES

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 743 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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QUESADA Y MATHEUS, JENARO DE (1818-1889), 1ST MARQUIS OF MIRAVALLES , Spanish soldier, was born at
Santander
 , on the 6th of February 1818. He was a son of General Vicente Quesada, a Conservative officer who was murdered and atrociously mutilated in the streets of Madrid by a revolutionary mob in the early days of Queen Isabella's reign. As Quesada belonged to an ancient family connected with the dukes of Fernan Nunez, he was made a cornet when only six years old, was educated at the
seminary
  for nobles and in 1833 was promoted
lieutenant
  in the 1st Foot Guards. He served from 18393 to 1836 against the Carlists. When his father was assassinated in 1836 he resigned, went to France, got employment in a merchant's office and was only induced to return to the army in 1837 by his relatives, who got him a company in the guards. He distinguished himself often in the Carlist war, but his promotion was slow, and he declined to have anything to do with politics. He confined himself to his duties as a soldier, always fighting on the side of governments against Carlist, Republican and Progressist risings. Ile only became a general of division in 1853, and at the head of the Madrid garrison he fought hard in 18S4 to avert thetriumph of Espartero, O'Donnell and Dulce, who publicly recognized his gallant conduct. When the war in Morocco broke out,
Marshal
  O'Donnell gave Quesada the command of a division, which played so conspicuous a part in that campaign and at the battle of Wad el Ras that its
commander
  was made
lieutenant
 -general and grand
cross
  of Charles III. He was director-general of the Civil Guard when the military rebellion of the 22nd of June 1866 broke out in Madrid, and after he had been wounded in the leg he remained at the head of the loyal troops until the insurgents were crushed. He did not accept any military post during the revolution until
Marshal
  Serrano in 1874 offered him the direction of the staff, and he only accepted it after clearly stating that he was a royalist and partisan of Alfonso XII. In his long and brilliant career he never swerved from his steadfast resolve never to be mixed up in any political or military intrigues or pronunciamientos to use his own words, " not even to restore my king." As soon as the king was restored, the government of Senor Canovas made Quesada first general-in-
chief
  of the army of Central Spain, and in February 1875 general-in-
chief
  of the army of the North. With the assistance of another officer who also had never dabbled in pronunciamientos, General O'Ryan, Quesada restored discipline in the armies confronting Don Carlos, and for twelve months concerted and conducted the operations that forced the pretender to retire into France and his followers to lay down their arms. The government confided to the marquis of Miravalles the difficult task of ruling the northern provinces for several years after the war, and he succeeded in conciliating the sympathies of the Basques and Navarrese, though the penalty of their last rising had been the loss of most of their ancient liberties or fueros. Quesada was made marquis of Miravalles, grandee after the war, minister of war in 1883 and senator. Though he was a strict, stern disciplinarian of the old school and an unflinching Conservative, Catholic and royalist, even his political and military opponents respected him, and were proud of him as an unblemished type of the Castilian soldier and
gentleman
 , He died at Madrid on the 19th of January 1889, and was given full military honours. (A. E. H.)


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